A rendering of a Goodyear Zeppelin. Alternate name: Zoso.

  • A rendering of a Goodyear Zeppelin. Alternate name: Zoso.

Get ready to say goodbye to the blimp and hello to the zeppelin.

After 100 years of building and flying blimps, and after 43 of using (basically) the same blimp design, Goodyear announced that come 2013, it will be swapping out its three blimps with zeppelins, which will be built in a partnership with German-based ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik. They will be manufactured at the Akron company’s Wingfoot Lake hangar base and cost $21 million each, a sound investment for something most noted for floating over stadiums.

What are the differences? Via the ABJ:

This article appears in May 4-10, 2011.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.

2 replies on “Goodyear Ditches Blimps For Zeppelins”

  1. It just proves we can’t build anything here anymore, we outsourced our experience, greed destroys everything!

  2. argggg>……..I was hoping for a full retro….the yellow/blue graphics are horrid…..Gimme the blimp of the 70s that flew over Indy 500!

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