Arriving at EAA

To celebrate 100 years of airship flying the Goodyear company sent two of its large format airships to Oshkosh. The airships N1A and N2A are usually referred to as 'Wingfoot One' and 'Wingfoot Two' Together with a third sistership, these were built by ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik in Friedrichshafen, Germany, around ten years ago. They are used as flying billboard during sportevents and as observation platforms during natural disasters. And they are big, their length is about the same as that of a Boeing 747-8!

Not a real blimp, as the preceding GZ-20A bearing the same registration, but a new semi-rigid airship filled with Helium. There are three Zeppelin NT in the Goodyear fleet, and all were assembled at Wingfoot Lake in Northeast Ohio. This is the last one, completed in 2018 and christened on 30 August 2018. Notable is the propulsion and maneuvering system, consisting of two side-mounted and tiltable propellers (tilted upward in the photo) and one tail-mounted tiltable propeller (tilted downward in the photo).

Del 27 April 2016 Test Registration as D-LZNS