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Formerly an aircraft dock, this huge building -- thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports -- is now the scene of many busy shops turning out aircraft sub-assembly parts, Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, Ohio. Either new housing clos

from The Library of Congress

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • jdavis417 said:
    Title: The Jugger-not OR A Titanic Workforce
  • Joelle Liedtke said:
    I'm not exactly sure, but I think this is the airdock that Goodyear currently uses to house their blimps.
  • Tim Fitzwater said:
    No its not. It is now owned by Lockheed Martin who is building a high altitude airship for the military. Goodyear built a few dirigible blimps here in the thirties and then used it to build blimps during WWII. Goodyear's blimp hanger is at Wingfoot Lake in Springfield Township, Ohio - The 'Spirit of Goodyear' is based there.
  • LelahO said:
    It was said that the Airdock has it's own weather. Apparently it gets (or got) so humid, it felt like it was raining on you if you were inside.
  • t knouff said:
    This was the hangar were the airships "Akron" and "Macon" were built, by the Zeppelin/Goodyear Corporation. "Akron" and "Macon" were some of the largest flying machines ever built, just slightly smaller than the Zeppelins "Hindenburg" and "Graf Zeppelin II", very large, over 700ft long, and all built on a rigid frame design. The biggest difference between "Akron" and "Macon" and the Zepps, the Goodyear ships where floated with non-flammable Helium.

vert of NAS Akron

from SDASM Archives

  • Paul Darby said:
    Akron Municipal Airport, Derby Downs, Goodyear Air Dock, Rubber Bowl

Photograph of the Nose of the USS Akron being Attached, ca. 1933

from U.S. National Archives

  • David Bromage said:
    This photo can't be from 1933. USS Akron's maiden voyage was on September 23, 1931. It could be the USS Macon.
  • wools said:
    2067-12-30-30... December 30th 1930?
  • Sarah Marsh said:
    Its wonderful
  • ladhunt hunt said:
    Thats magnificent
  • Pheromone Authority said:
    Thats extraordinary