Tire manufacturer Goodyear is offering fans of its iconic advertising blimps a chance to own a part of the envelope of the ...

There’s one flying machine that demands all to stop in their tracks, regardless of whether they care about flying or not.

By the time the first blimp was retired in 1931, it had made 4,700 flights carrying over 5,300 people. Since then, many Goodyear blimps have come and gone as technology progressed.

The archetype, of course, is the Goodyear blimp. The first Goodyear blimp took to the skies in 1925 and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (GT) now owns a U.S. fleet of three, which the company ...

ATG has years of experience building blimps, including Fuji’s advertising blimp, and it pioneered such technologies as “fly-by-wire” fibre-optic control systems years before airplane ...

But that changed after the 9/11 attacks in New York. Almost overnight, Worldwide Aeros Corp. went from making advertising blimps to making surveillance blimps. The company became a contractor of the U ...