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MD Haas
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Have you ever been to the Goodyear Airdock in Akron, Ohio?
Built in 1929. The largest building in the world without interior supports. Dirigibles were built here until 1935.
Ohio Historical Marker there states:
A colossus of engineering acumen and structural steel, the Goodyear Airdock was built in 1929 as the construction facility for the U.S. Navy's rigid airships, the USS Akron (1931) and USS Macon (1933).
The airships, or dirigibles, served as the fleet's aerial watchdogs, but with the advancement of aircraft carriers, the Navy no longer needed these leviathans of the skies, which were large enough to carry five biplanes. Eleven steel parabolic arches, cresting at 211 feet, create one of the largest open space interiors in the world and shelter more than 364,000 square feet of floor space. Only one of the arches is fixed to its concrete piling. Its 660-ton spherical doors rest on flatbed railroad cars to open. The Airdock, a National Civil Engineering Landmark, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Andrew Rapach: I was told as a kid when driving past that it was big enough to have its own weather inside.
MD Haas: Andrew Rapach The weather story is true.
Mary Lou Hefling: My dad worked there in the 30's building blimps. He fell off the ladder halfway down and broke almost every bone in his body. They thought he was dead. They put him in the back of a Jeep and covered him with a tarp. With the bouncing taking him out, they heard him moaning and realized he was alive. No Worker's Comp in those days, but when he healed enough, Goodyear retrained him in communications and he used it during the War and he had a job for life at Goodyear. He took us to the Air Dock several times. It has it's own weather inside it is so huge. It will have clouds gather and occasionally rain inside.
Gwen Andrix: I am looking forward to the new generation of airships that will be flying in the next couple of years.
Mike Dial: Where is it?
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Jim Rogers commented on MD's post
Yes, many times. Never inside, though. My dad was stationed at Akron NAS, I was born in Akron and I used to ride my bike over to the airport when I was young.
It is slightly larger than Moffett Field’s Hanger One (in California)
John Deever: Jim Rogers this airship is at the bottom of Monterey Bay today, and the aquarium team sends submarines to look at it. Weird huh.
https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/macon/ |
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Robert Dickson commented on MD's post
Drove my truck right next to this bad boy.......✌️😁 |
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Chris Cline commented on MD's post
I have raced BMX there most of my life. |
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Thomas K Peterson commented on MD's post, cropped
Steeles game sunday |
Seven photos provided by Robert Gionis in the comments.
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Elaine Marie: Robert Gionis isn’t this the smaller structure and not the first original one?
Robert Gionis: Elaine Marie This is the big one, we do inspections on it. |
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