Flight in the Goodyear Blimp GZ-20A "Spirit of America" N10A Carson, California 2010 скачать в хорошем качестве

Flight in the Goodyear Blimp GZ-20A "Spirit of America" N10A Carson, California 2010

Recorded on May 7th 2010. I was invited to fly in the Goodyear Blimp down at the Goodyear Blimp Base Airport Carson, California USA (64CL) Goodyear Aerospace GZ-20A Blimp "Spirit of America" N10A (cn 4117) Manufactured in 1979 A huge Thank You to the person who invited me to fly in the Goodyear Blimp Pilot at the time of my flight was Kristen Davis (Thank You) Thank you to my wife Gail Whisenant for shooting the video footage. Goodyear Blimp Home Page click on the link below http://www.goodyearblimp.com/cfmx/web... Goodyear Blimp From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Goodyear Blimp is any one of a fleet of blimps operated by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company for advertising purposes and for use as a television camera platform for aerial views of sporting events. Goodyear began producing airship envelopes in 1911 and introduced its own blimp, The Pilgrim, in 1925. Fleet Today there are three blimps in the fleet in the USA: • Spirit of Goodyear, based in Suffield Township, Ohio near Akron • Spirit of America, based in Carson, California • Spirit of Innovation, based in Pompano Beach, Florida All three craft are outfitted with LED sign technology Goodyear calls "Eaglevision." This allows the aircraft to display bright, multi-colored, animated words and images. Goodyear also has blimps operating in other parts of the world. These airships are built and operated by Van Wagner of Orlando, Florida, In May 2011 Goodyear announced it will be replacing its fleet of blimps with three semi-rigid airships built by Zeppelin NT. Lifting agent The blimps are filled with helium. The helium is maintained under low pressure, so small punctures do not pose serious consequences for the blimp. One inspection element of the blimps is to look into the envelope for pinpoints of light which are indicative of small holes. The Goodyear blimps are non-rigid (meaning their shape is not maintained by a rigid internal structure) dirigibles (directable/steerable airships). Inside their exterior envelope, the Goodyear blimps are fitted with air--filled ballonets. As the blimp ascends or descends, the internal ballonets expand or contract to compensate for density changes and to maintain uniform pressure in the envelope To read more about the Goodyear Blimp you can click on the Wikipedia link below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear...