The first flight of USS Macon in Akron, Ohio. The airship is attached to a mooring mast. The control tower of the airship. The airship takes off. 'US Navy' written on a side of the airship. Men watch the launch.
The first flight of USS Macon in Akron, Ohio. The airship in flight overhead. 'US Navy' written on the airship. A high altitude view of the area.
The first flight of USS Macon in Akron, Ohio. The airship in flight overhead. A hangar. A line is dropped to the ground. The airship is attached to a mooring mast. Men watch. The control cabin of the airship. Passengers come ashore from the airship. The airship enters the hangar.
The first flight of USS Macon in Akron, Ohio. A man in the control room of the airship. A man walks on a catwalk. He talks over a phone. Other men walking along the catwalk. The dirigible in flight overhead. A high altitude view of the area. A hangar. The airship is being attached to a mooring mast.
View of Goodyear Hall in Akron Ohio, and downtown streets of Akron Ohio from an elevated view. Goodyear Hall and clock tower with flags of different nations hanging from its walls. Scene change to a village across the Pacific and native workers extracting and collecting rubber from rubber trees with hand tools. Workers picking cotton at an Arizona cotton plantation and finished bales of cotton. Scene change again back to Akron Ohio, where spectators enjoy a Goodyear Company baseball game at Seiberling Athletic Field. Well dressed men, women, and children seated in the stands at the baseball game for the Goodyear Wingfoots. Women War production workers manufacture gas masks with rubber pipes at a Goodyear factory early in World War 2, before America's entry into the war. They are seen exiting the factory after the work day is over. Aircraft parts for Britain and America being manufactured at a Goodyear factory that houses the company airship dock, 3 blocks long and 30 stories high. Exterior views of clearing and construction work beginning for two more aircraft construction facilities near the Airship dock. Two men test low pressure aircraft tires and brakes of a Good Year plane. View of many cars parked as employment and facilites expand at Goodyear facilities.
Maiden flight of United States airship Akron. C.E. Rosendahl along with the crew of Akron lined up with people in the background. USS Akron comes out of a hangar at Goodyear Zeppelin in Akron, Ohio on 23rd September, 1931. American flag at the nose of the airship. Airship lifts off and in flight. A sign on the ground reads ' Goodyear Zeppelin ' The airship returns after its trial flight.
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