Sad news from yesterday.
By: J Boyle - 13th June 2011 at 18:23
Not correct. Goodyear Blimp have signed an agreement with ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik to produce larger airships for the next decade, (3rd May, 2011).
I hope so. My conversation with him occurred on May 12 and he said he had just received the word a day or two before.
Perhaps he meant that Goodyear would no longer make its own ships, which they have traditionally done.
If true, it would be some GOOD aviation news today, of which there isn’t much in light of the Goodyear crash and the B-17 loss.
By: Newforest - 13th June 2011 at 17:52
Not correct. Goodyear Blimp have signed an agreement with ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik to produce larger airships for the next decade, (3rd May, 2011).
By: J Boyle - 13th June 2011 at 17:31
RIP to the pilot, he did a very selfless act.
A couple of weeks ago I met a Goodyear tire distributor and he told me that after 80-90 years, Goodyear was shutting down its blimp operation.
Perhaps this will seal the deal.
By: TonyT - 13th June 2011 at 16:14
OMG that poor man, he would have known that he was done for when he gave the passengers the chance of life, it would of climbed and sealed his fate 🙁
One eyewitness said: ‘We could also hear the cries of the doomed pilot as the fire surrounded him. It was terrible.’
🙁
RIP a brave man..
By: Newforest - 13th June 2011 at 15:33
The pilot was Mike Nerandzic, an Australian with 12,000 flying hours on airships. Life is never fair. The aircraft was G-TLEL.
By: duxfordhawk - 13th June 2011 at 10:28
How tragic 🙁
By: Arabella-Cox - 13th June 2011 at 08:44
Das ist nicht gut. 🙁 RIP.
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