Goodyear Aircraft Corporation pictures

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Great pics, thanks for taking the time to scan & post them 🙂

Those that like the factory pics that Whiskey Delta has posted will also like the thread over on WIX .
Grummen & Republic factory pics from the ’30’s to the ’90’s, its a long thread with nearly 4000 pics so far & still being added to.
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13327

When we moved into our house in ’77 we found an album left in a closet. The album contained 53 pictures from the early 1940’s of the Goodyear manufacturing in Akron and Suffield, Ohio USA for the FG-1, B-26 fuselage section and blimps. We finally got around to scanning the images 33 years after finding the album.!

Excellent photos, I certainly enjoyed looking through them. Thanks for taking the time to scan them and post on flicker.

Glad you like them. We’re slowly in the process of finding a home for the album. Stuff like this doesn’t need to be kept stored away in a private house. I’ve contacted 2 pilots I know who work for Goodyear (corporate jet and blimp) with the hopes of them having a archive that perhaps these pictures could fill a hole if they don’t already have them. If not there it sounds like a local University may have a good collection of photos regarding the Goodyear operations during WW2. We’ll see what we can find.

Other picture I’m curious about is this one:

Having not seen the inside of many 1940’s era aircraft I’m not sure if this structure would be for an aircraft or airship. The thinness of the metal and other components look more airshiplike to me. Perhaps a portion of a gondola?

What a superb find…I dream about stumbling on something similar !

I second bms’ motion, my jealousy is incalculable and I won’t repeat the words I used on reading the first line of your opening post! Fabulous find.

They do look look like wheel hubs, with the slots that accept the multiple braking shoes and rubber inflation bags.
Lovely images.

Goodyear Aircraft Corporation pictures

What a superb find…I dream about stumbling on something similar ! Thanks for sharing them ; those pristine Corsairs are mouth-watering stuff!

Any idea what he’s machining here? Looks like wheel hubs perhaps?

FG-1 pics are extremely interesting. A couple of shots in the second row from the top can be dated quite accurately as they feature the red outline to the bar and star. That was only in use by the USN between the end of July and mid-September 1943, so those pics must have been taken around that time.

RJC

That circle on the far right of the elevator would be a good mark to match on a B-29 tail.

First guess, I would say B-29.

Just had a quick look through my basic B-29 sources, and Goodyear was contracted to produce the tail assemblies.

I was wondering if it was B-29, but would think too small, maybe B-17?