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Gasbag Derby. From Cleveland Airport one afternoon last week six gasbags cast off into a leaden sky for the 19th James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Late the next afternoon the two favorites, the U. S. Goodyear and Belgian entries were still aloft, fighting it out for the second leg of the third Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 15, 1930 | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...Goodyear Tire & Rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

Although shorter than the Graf, the R-100 has greater volume. Dimensions of both, compared to the U. S. Navy's ZRS-4 and ZRS-5 now being built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. at Akron, Ohio: R-100 Graf ZRSs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: R-100--At Last | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

Blimping. Like a windstreamed globule of silver, the Goodyear-Zeppelin baby blimp Mayflower floated down upon the afterdeck of the liner Bremen as it approached New York harbor last week. Into the gondola stepped Goodyear President Paul Weeks Litchfield to be borne to Grand Central Air Terminal, thence to his Manhattan hotel, two hours ahead of other Bremen passengers. Since 1925 when the first was built, the Goodyear blimps (Pilgrim, Puritan, Volunteer, Mayflower, Vigilant, Defender) have advertised the company by flying about the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

...Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start, was the Goodyear Zeppelin, piloted by R. J. Blair and F. A. Trotter, near Greensburg, Ky. with the winning distance of 850 mi. Second: City of Detroit (700 mi.); third: United Van Service (685 mi.), landing at Russellville and Kirkmansville, Ky., respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Racing Gasbags | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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