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The Goodyear Airdock is a construction and storage airship hangar in Akron, Ohio. At its completion in 1929, it was the largest building in the world without interior supports.
The Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio, was constructed in 1929 by the Goodyear Zepplin Corporation from plans created by the Wilbur Watson Engineering Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Work began on April 20, 1929, and by November 25 the Airdock was completed at a cost of $2.2 million.
Sep 6, 2016 · Over 1100 feet long, 300 feet wide and over 200 feet high. One of the biggest buildings I've ever seen. If you are an aviation enthusiast, this is a must see facility if you are in Akron. No Goodyear blimps on site when we were there, unless they were inside. Read more.
Nov 14, 2014 · Built in 1929, the almost unbelievably huge Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio, was created as a space where blimps, airships, and dirigibles could be constructed, but building such a massive...
Feb 18, 2022 · This ten-minute silent Goodyear film contains most of the surviving footage showing how Akron’s rigid airship construction shed, the “Airdock,” was built. Beginning in the heady days before the...
Take a virtual tour of Goodyear's Blimp hangar at Wingfoot Lake in Akron, Ohio, or request a visit to one of the three airship bases.
The Goodyear Airdock remains among the largest buildings ever designed, in terms of obstruction-free interior square footage. It covers an area larger than eight football fields set side-by-side and is roughly as tall as a 22-story building.
The Akron fell from the sky on April 4, 1933, in a violent electrical storm off the coast of New Jersey, killing 73 passengers. The Macon also crashed in 1935, ending up in the Pacific Ocean. The blimps Goodyear produced at the Airdock were mainly intended for military use.
The Goodyear Airdock was built for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation in 1929 to house the construction of two giant rigid airships: the Akron (ZRS4) and the Macon (ZRS5) dirigibles, under contract with the United States Navy.
Aug 15, 2016 · The Goodyear Airdock was built in 1929 by Detroit architect Albert Kahn. Completed at a cost of $2.2 million, it was the largest building in the world without an interior support...
