Pretty cool
Thx for posting that
Tacoma dome is wood too, much more recent vintage tho and not as vouminous
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11-08-2023, 09:44 AM #26
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11-08-2023, 10:58 AM #27
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Growing up our Scout Platoon got a tour of Wingfoot Lake Blimp Base in Akron and go up in the Goodyear Blimp which was really cool. Loud is how I remember it.
I always wanted to see the Goodyear Airdock in Akron where they built the blimps during WWII but it was never open to the public. It's impossibly huge and dwarfs the blimp hangar at Wingfoot Lake. Lockheed owns it now and is apparently developing the next generation of airships. When you'd fly by it in a plane or even drive by in a car it looked spooky and imposing like some kind of clandestine experiments were being done in there.
It's a crazy building in itself. It can rain inside from temperature changes/differences outside and the whole thing is built on rollers to account for expansion and contraction.I still call it The Jake.
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11-08-2023, 11:02 AM #28
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A fun fact is that the current "Goodyear Blimps" are not actually blimps: they're semi-rigid airships. Blimps have no structural support. They're basically giant bags filled with helium.
Goodyear has three airships in the current fleet: Wingfoot One, Two, and Three.
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11-08-2023, 11:09 AM #29
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The average TGR poster?
Originally Posted by The AD
*rimshot*I still call it The Jake.
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11-08-2023, 11:15 AM #30
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At least this thread is bringing out the comedy!
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11-08-2023, 11:24 AM #31
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You think we’re capable of anything so noble? Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
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11-08-2023, 11:25 AM #32
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No, but for the most part this place is a gas.
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11-08-2023, 11:27 AM #33
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Reminds me of that time Dunfree had a sea cow
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11-08-2023, 11:28 AM #34
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Two year old (an updated version would be even more realistic) AI colorized Hindenburg Disaster:
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11-08-2023, 11:36 AM #35
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Talk about blowing a lot of hot air. Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
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11-08-2023, 11:36 AM #36
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11-08-2023, 11:38 AM #37
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If this thread had a soundtrack, I'd say it needs to be Dirigible Planets.
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11-08-2023, 11:53 AM #38
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Or Led Zeppelin.
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11-08-2023, 12:34 PM #39
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Gotta include 99 luftballoons
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11-08-2023, 12:38 PM #40
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not a Steller joke Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
they did ballon rides inside the moffet field blimp hanger iirc
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11-08-2023, 12:41 PM #41
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11-08-2023, 12:47 PM #42
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I still call it The Jake.
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11-08-2023, 08:05 PM #43
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In the latest instance of The Padded Room Influences Everything, this showed up on my news this evening. Google is getting a dirigible.
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/9579664...itarian-cargo/I still call it The Jake.
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11-09-2023, 01:57 PM #44
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11-09-2023, 02:13 PM #45
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I still call it The Jake.
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11-09-2023, 02:36 PM #46
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11-09-2023, 02:50 PM #47
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Excellent JC.
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11-09-2023, 02:52 PM #48
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The one in Tillamook is almost as hudge
https://tillamookcoast.com/what-to-d...es%20of%20land.
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11-09-2023, 05:33 PM #49
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News today is that asbestos was discovered in the ash so now they've closed schools in the area as a safety precaution.
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11-09-2023, 08:01 PM #50
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Think of all the alien UFOs that burned up in that hangar.
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