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Goodyear blimpIn 1972, according to a number of web sites, “the Goodyear blimp was first flown.” This is incorrect, however, because the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation of Akron Ohio delivered the first dirigible for private commercial operation decades earlier, on 22 May 1930, to the New England Airship Company of Bedford, Mass. That airship was chartered by Bird & Son, Inc. of East Walpole, Mass., and within a five months span of time made 1,380 flights as a goodwill messenger, carrying more than 6,000 passengers. Goodyear had been in business before that - since 1925 - when Goodyear built its first helium-filled public relations airship, the Pilgrim, which toured the U.S. with the tyre company name painted on the side.«* |
