Blimp Celebrates Its 75th Birthday

Even more so than the original symbol of tyre maker Goodyear – the “Wingfoot” – the Goodyear Blimp has become a corporate icon. In June 1925 the “Pilgrim”, first of what was to be hundreds of Blimps, was launched at Wingfoot Lake airship facility near Akron, still headquarters of the world’s # 1 in tyres..