Greatest Airdock

This ten-minute silent Goodyear film contains most of the surviving footage showing how Akron’s rigid airship construction shed, the “Airdock,” was built. Beginning in the heady days before the stock market crash, contemporary construction equipment - one is steam powered - raises what would become the largest free-space enclosure in the world for many decades to follow. Refurbished by Lockheed in the 2000s and now home to LTA R&E, Akron's Airdock is a unique American structure, said to be capable of enclosing the buildup of a 20 million cu ft airship.

[@tomh6183]

Went to Akron some years ago and went to the airlock but unfortunately the security guard couldn’t let me in,a disappointment but he did let me take pictures outside.Magnificent structure and very historical

[@eugenemoyers8631]

Great footage. Thanks for showing it.

[@roskene]

A magnificent piece of engineering considering the time period. In 1986 Goodyear bused all employees in Akron to the air dock for a celebration for the United Way. I was one of them. Inside was a Goodyear Blimp and it was tiny compared to the over 700 foot long Zeppelin’s built there. The USS Akron and Macon. I have video I bought years ago of the construction and christening of the Akron bought on EBay.