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Goodyear Aerospace
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(File:Rail Zeppelin postcard.jpg|thumb|Postcard showing a "Rail Zeppelin" Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, Akron Ohio)Goodyear's aerospace operations began with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.âs Aeronautics Department. As part of the settling of war reparations with Germany after World War I, the German airship industry was reduced and Zeppelin operations forbidden. In 1924, Goodyear formed a joint interest company with the German Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company, of which Goodyear held 2/3 and the Zeppelin company 1/3 interest. This Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation was able to use Zeppelin's patents, and a number of German engineers and technical staff moved to the US. The chief engineer of the Zeppelin company, Karl Arnstein, became the "Vice-President of Engineering"{{citation |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19750023961.pdf |title=Feasibility Study Of Modern Airships Vol. III Historical Overview |last=Goodyear Aerospace Corp |date=August 1975 |publisher=US Dept of Commerce |page=3 }}BOOK, Smith, Richard, The Airships Akron & Macon, The Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy, 1965, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 0870210653, 7, The company subsequently constructed rigid (zeppelins) and non-rigid (blimps) dirigibles for the US military. Goodyear's giant hangar was constructed where the huge rigid airships for the US Navy, including the USS Akron and USS Macon were constructed. "Latest Diesel-Engine Train Built Like Airships", Popular Mechanics, July 1935Wartime aircraft manufacturing
Also due to the lack of business during the depression, the company used its advanced aeronautical knowledge to design and build the high speed Comet streamlined train for the route between Boston and Providence. It became Goodyear Aircraft CorporationWEB, Goodyear Aerospace Corporation,weblink Ohio History Central, Ohio History Connection, 22 April 2021, on December 5, 1939 in response to a contract from the Glenn L. Martin Company to design and build the empennage section for its new plane, the B-26 Marauder. The army had placed a large order and Goodyear had available manufacturing space at its huge Airship Dock, in Springfield Township, Ohio near Akron. Due to escalating problems in Europe and eventual war with Germany, Goodyear created Goodyear Aircraft Corporation to handle US military contracts in 1939. The German-US joint venture was dissolved in 1941, and Goodyear's military and commercial airship operations were transferred to the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation.By 1941, manufacturing facilities were running at full capacity and ground was broken on July 15, 1941 at an additional location just west of Phoenix, Arizona. Goodyear was familiar with the area, and had been operating a large cotton ranch there for decades. Arizona produced more than three million pounds of airframes during World War II.The Akron plant where FG-1s were built was handed over to the U.S. Navy, which used it as the basis of Naval Air Station Akron in January 1948.MAGAZINE, February 1948, Naval Air Reserve Commissions NAS Akron,weblink Naval Aviation News, 24, 18 March 2022, Goodyear Aircraft Company employee Carl Wiley invented Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) in 1951. His invention resulted in the creation of the first SAR patent, first digital SAR processor, and development of several different high performance SAR systems used for applications such as surveillance, aerial warfare, and cartography.JOURNAL, Lasswell, Stephen W., 2005-05-16, History of SAR at Lockheed Martin (previously Goodyear Aerospace),weblink Radar Sensor Technology IX, SPIE, 5788, 1â12, 10.1117/12.603927, 2005SPIE.5788....1L,Diversification
The Arizona plant produced a range of defense products in later years, including jet aircraft canopies, bulletproof glass and vehicular armor products, military shelters and missile transporters.Darrell C. Romick, former Chief Engineer of Taylorcraft Airplane Company was a close associate of Wernher von Braun. Romick's worked for Goodyear Aircraft in the 1950s produced a rocket and spacecraft design called the Goodyear Meteor Junior concept. The 3-stage rocket had similarities to the much later Space Shuttle in that it was crewed, had reusable stages, and its topmost stage was designed to ferry personnel and cargo to a large space station orbiting the Earth.Model, Space Shuttle, Goodyear Meteor Jr. 3-Stage Fully Reusable Concept, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. The concept was designed in 1954 to 1958, with a launch date of 1962.All About Satellites and Space Ships, David Dietz, Random House, Toronto, {{LCCN|58009014}}The company became Goodyear Aerospace Corporation in 1963 to reflect the diverse range of products. In 1987 it was sold to Loral Corporation for $640 million following a massive restructuring of Goodyear prompted by the hostile takeover attempt by James Goldsmith and the Hanson Trust. The Goodyear name disappeared and became the defense systems unit of Loral.Demise
The defense systems unit of Loral was acquired by Lockheed Martin in 1993, including intellectual property surrounding the now-retired Goodyear Blimp designs (GZ-20 and GZ-22). While owning the designs, Lockheed Martin does not manufacture airships.WEB, Escher, Roland, Goodyear Aerospace Corp.,weblink Airship and Blimp Resources, 22 April 2021,Aircraft
Airships{| class"wikitable sortable"
Fixed-wing aircraft{| class"wikitable sortable"
Helicopters
Missiles
See also
- Goodyear Massively Parallel Processor â supercomputer built by Goodyear Aerospace
- ASARS-1
References
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{{Reflist}}Bibliography
- BOOK, Allen, Hugh, Goodyear Aircraft: A Story of Man and Industry, 1947,
External links
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company records, 1898-1993 â University of Akron
- The Wingfoot Clan (Aircraft Edition) â University of Akron
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