From Aviation to Aeronautics
The view here is southward from the Aviation/LAX station on the Los Angeles Metrorail Green Line, which means that those hills in the background are "Los Palos Verdes", & the city of Carson is probably at the bottom.
Carson, of course, is where the Goodyear Spirit of America is based, and this is presumably she. Goodyear has elected not to attempt to renew the Certificate of Airworthiness for the GZ-20A ships, which are basically a 1930s design, relatives of the Navy L-class training blimps of the Second World War ; nor yet to revive the innovative GZ-22 type, which flew in the 1990s as the Spirit of Akron. Rather, three Zeppelin N07-101 semirigids are being procured ; the first has already been erected at Wingfoot Lake, although not yet christened, & scuttlebutt has her headed for California. So the number of future opportunities for a shot like this is limited.
Carson, of course, is where the Goodyear Spirit of America is based, and this is presumably she. Goodyear has elected not to attempt to renew the Certificate of Airworthiness for the GZ-20A ships, which are basically a 1930s design, relatives of the Navy L-class training blimps of the Second World War ; nor yet to revive the innovative GZ-22 type, which flew in the 1990s as the Spirit of Akron. Rather, three Zeppelin N07-101 semirigids are being procured ; the first has already been erected at Wingfoot Lake, although not yet christened, & scuttlebutt has her headed for California. So the number of future opportunities for a shot like this is limited.
