The N-Class, or as popularly known, the "Nan ship", was a line of non-rigid airships built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio for the US Navy. This line of airships was …

The K-class blimp was a class of blimps (non-rigid airship) built by the Goodyear Aircraft Company of Akron, Ohio, for the United States Navy. These blimps were powered by two Pratt …

At about 6 a.m. on August 16, 1942, the United States Navy blimp L-8 took off from a small airfield on Treasure Island, an artificial island built in San Francisco Bay for a recent world’s fair....

List of airships of the United States Navy identifies the airships of the United States Navy by type, identification, and class. In the background, Los Angeles, in front of it, (l to r) J-3 or 4, K-1, …

Nonrigid airships or “blimps” or “gas bags” were a major component of U.S. naval aviation during World War II and through the 1950s. The largest “class” of blimps was the K-series. The K-1 …

The story of airship operations and expansion in WW II deals with the largest lighter-than-air fleet and the largest number of LTA operations the world has ever seen. U.S. Navy LTA operations...

From 1942 to 1945, Goodyear Aircraft Company in Akron, Ohio built 155 airships in four classes for the U.S. Navy for patrol duty in the Atlantic, Pacific and Mediterranean theaters of WW II. …

The American Blimp MZ-3A is a blimp owned by the United States Navy from 2006 to 2017. It is a modified American Blimp Corporation A-170 series commercial blimp and given the USN …

The Naval Airship Association promotes the history, education, applications and technology of lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicles including balloons, blimps, dirigibles, zeppelins and other airships.

2013年10月23日 · Short on options, the U.S. Navy turned to some decidedly outdated technology to bolster the nation’s maritime defences – blimps. Beginning in 1942 and continuing through …