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Enterprise: 1938
Washington, D.C., circa 1938. "Goodyear Blimp at Washington Air Post." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Blimp rides $3!
I just read "The Pentagon: A History" by Steve Vogel and he describes the Goodyear blimp Enterprise being a fixture in the Washington skies. It was based at the Washington-Hoover Airport, future site of the Pentagon, and offered rides to tourists for $3. Must have been a lot of money back then though.
Perhaps the first documented instance
of overbooking a flight.
NCC-1701
....to slowly go where no man has gone before.....
Hazardous Duty
The starboard engine had been shut down to allow passenger boarding, but the port prop is still turning just a few feet from the ground handlers. Ouch!
Enterprise Prototype
Give me warp speed NOW Mr. Scott!!
They Can't All Go!
There are a lot more people lining up than will fit in the passenger compartment!
I was a passenger in one of the Goodyear blimps in the early 1970s (a newer one than the one shown in 1938). As I remember it, it held only five or six people plus the pilot.
Helium v Hydrogen
Goodyear used helium starting with its first airship in 1925.
All aboard!
Well, let's hope that invitation wasn't extended!
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