visibility Similar

A Sailor grinds the edge of a storage unit.

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Tony Chatman and Tech.

190225-N-ZM949-1161 PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 25, 2019) Aviation

190129-N-UM706-0021 ATLANTIC OCEAN (Jan. 29, 2019)

170904-N-ZS023-026 U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY

WORKERS PACKING CANDIES AT THE "ELITE" FACTORY IN RAMAT GAN. פועלים אורזים ממתקים במפעל "עלית" ברמת גן.D20-001

KITLV - 26928 - Kleingrothe, C.J. - Medan - Pressing and packaging of tobacco, East Coast of Sumatra - circa 1905

200826-N-WS494-1035 NAVAL BASE GUAM (Aug. 26, 2020)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Ferguson with the

code Related

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Here is one of the airplane sub-assembly production lines at an Ohio plant, which was a former airship dock. These are control surfaces for military aircraft, being assembled here for shipment to plane plants. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. This giant hydraulic press with rubber insert is used to stamp out numerous sub-assembly parts for planes at this huge converted airship dock. These "sub-assembly" parts are put together at the different plants and then sent to the plane plants for inclusion in the finished plane. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Here is the "dope room" at a huge Ohio plant. The fabric covering control surfaces for military aircraft is here doped, or covered with protective paints. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. This giant hydraulic press with rubber insert is used to stamp out numerous sub-assembly parts for planes at this huge converted airship dock. These "sub-assembly" parts are put together at the different plants and then sent to the plane plants for inclusion in the finished plane. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. A complicated system of storing parts for airplane sub-assembly assures workers at an Ohio plant that they will not be held up for parts. Here is a portion of the huge storeroom, with a worker piling small sections where they will be available at a moment's notice. Constant inventory is kept. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. A complicated system of storing parts for airplane sub-assembly assures workers at an Ohio plant that they will not be held up for parts. Here is a portion of the huge storeroom, with a worker piling small sections where they will be available at a moment's notice. Constant inventory is kept. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Nearly ready to take its place in the battle for humanity, this control car for a naval non-rigid airship is receiving the finishing touches at the huge airship dock of an Ohio rubber company. Workers are here installing one of the two powerful motors which provide the power for the ship. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Here is the "dope room" at a huge Ohio plant. The fabric covering control surfaces for military aircraft is here doped, or covered with protective paints. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. A complicated system of storing parts for airplane sub-assembly assures workers at an Ohio plant that they will not be held up for parts. Here is a portion of the huge storeroom, with a worker piling small sections where they will be available at a moment's notice. Constant inventory is kept. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Subcontracting aircraft parts. Here is one of the airplane sub-assembly production lines at an Ohio plant, which was a former airship dock. These are control surfaces for military aircraft, being assembled here for shipment to plane plants. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

description

Summary

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The main types of airship are non-rigid, semi-rigid, and rigid. Non-rigid airships, often called "blimps", rely on internal pressure to maintain the shape of the airship. Semi-rigid airships maintain the envelope shape by internal pressure but have a supporting structure. Rigid airships have an outer structural framework which maintains the shape and carries all structural loads, while the lifting gas is contained in internal gas bags or cells. Rigid airships were first flown by Count Zeppelin and the vast majority of rigid airships built were manufactured by the firm he founded. As a result, all rigid airships are sometimes called zeppelins. In early dirigibles, the lifting gas used was hydrogen, due to its high lifting capacity and ready availability. Helium gas has almost the same lifting capacity and is not flammable, unlike hydrogen, but is rare and relatively expensive. Airships were most commonly used before the 1940s, but their use decreased over time as their capabilities were surpassed by those of aeroplanes.

label_outline

Tags

ohio summit county akron safety film negatives akron ohio aircraft parts aircraft parts airplane production lines production lines plant ohio plant airship dock airship dock control surfaces are control surfaces shipment plane plane plants goodyear aviators interior factory history of akron ohio akron free images akron photographs united states history library of congress
date_range

Date

01/01/1941
person

Contributors

Palmer, Alfred T., photographer
United States. Office for Emergency Management.
collections

in collections

Leviathans of Air

Airships: powered, steerable lighter than air aircrafts.
place

Location

Akron (Ohio) ,  41.08139, -81.51889
create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain

label_outline Explore Airship Dock, Ohio Plant, Production Lines

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are produced by a series of operations that transform a flat brass disc into a case ready for loading with propelling charge and shell. Between each operation there is careful washing to remove all scale and adhesion and to leave surfaces clean for later processing. The big Midwest plant doing the work is well equipped to handle it in stride

Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Agena ProductionLine CAL37

Balloons - R - Type R, Army Kite Balloon. Four of this type in the air at the Flying Field, Akron, Ohio. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co

Photograph of the Nose of the USS Akron being Attached, ca. 1933

Giant tire manufacturing. Construction of modern airports and other military facilities which requires moving large quantities of earth necessitates equipment identified as earth movers. Earth movers use huge rubber tires like these, some of which cost as much as $2,500 each. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Removing cured tube from mold. As the tire molds are all-automatic, so are the tube molds. This one has just opened; all the operator need do is remove the finished tube and put in another raw one. Note the seam marks in the mold itself, which leave their imprint on the tube. Thus a seamless tube may appear to have a collection of many sections. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Negro men and women work side by side on the production lines at the Saint Louis, Missouri plant of the Airplane Division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The male inspector in the rear checks the accuracy of the completed work of the women in the foreground

U.S. Air Force AIRMAN 1ST Class Michael Walters, a non-destructive inspection technicinan with the 31st Maintenance Squadron, uses a magnetic particle machine to detect defects on aircraft parts at Aviano Air Base, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2004. (USAF PHOTO by AIRMAN 1ST Class Scherrie K. Gates) (Released)

Twenty-millimeter machine guns for planes. American power in the air grows rapidly as machine guns of the finest quality pour from our production lines. These guns, entirely completed and ready to fire, await shipment from the large converted auto plant in which they were made. Oldsmobile, Lansing, Michigan

Technicians use sanders to prepare aircraft parts for painting. Aircraft inspections and repairs are made quickly and more efficiently due to the implementation of the Strategic Air Command's Readiness Oriented Logistics System, a program which consolidat

Production. M-4 tanks. Mighty M-4 tanks are flowing in a strong, steady stream from the production lines of our arsenal of democracy. These bogie wheels being assembled in an Eastern plant give some idea of the massive construction of our new land battleships

Topics

ohio summit county akron safety film negatives akron ohio aircraft parts aircraft parts airplane production lines production lines plant ohio plant airship dock airship dock control surfaces are control surfaces shipment plane plane plants goodyear aviators interior factory history of akron ohio akron free images akron photographs united states history library of congress