Soaring Into the Future
Today, Goodyear’s Blimp fleet continues to impress audiences with its hi-definition, gyro-stabilized aerial views of major sports events. In 2014, NCAA Bowl games in January followed by Major League Baseball home openers and NBA playoffs are just a few of the events that the Blimps have covered.
Goodyear’s long history with the television sports industry has brought recognition and acclaim to its airship program in general and in particular to one of its early leaders, Mickey Wittman. Wittman was instrumental in refining, and to a degree inventing, how the Blimps and Goodyear would gain from all of this investment. In part, Mickey’s story is Goodyear’s story
Today’s product placement and brand awareness measurements for Blimps are still based on Goodyear and Wittman’s early establishment of the standard. In 2013, Wittman was inducted into The Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame for his pioneering work in the area of aerial sports broadcasting with the Goodyear Blimps.
The Wingfoot Lake facility is currently dedicated to building and maintaining the new Goodyear Blimp. The corporate airship flight operations offices and supporting shops are all located in the main hangar. It also remains the support facility for the blimps based at Carson, Ca. and Pompano Beach, Fl.
While Goodyear was in the airship business since before the Pilgrim was built in 1925, it is considered the first public relations blimp for the Company.
2025 will mark the 100th year of continuous operation of the Goodyear airship program, which is the longest in history and certainly the most successful.
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