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Date: 2011-01-24 15:23:38
Naval Air Station Pensacola
Pensacola
Florida
Naval Air Station Key West
Airship
Naval Aircraft Factory
Blimp
Naval aviation
USS Akron
Jack Mason Gougar
Florida
Aviation
Aircraft

By W. L. Hamlen On May 29, 1917, the Navy made a contract with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, to train 20 men in free ballooning and in the operation of kite balloons and dirigibles. Negotiations for

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