Buffalo / Akron / Paris / Philadelphia / Lake Charles / Washington / MOUTCHIC / St. Louis / LeCroisic / Preston / Liverpool / London / Chicago / Amityville / /
Company
Sperry / Colley W. Bell / Goodyear / First Marine Aeronautic Company / Marine Aeronautic Company / Curtiss Company / the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company / Andrew B. Talbot / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
France / United States / Argentina / /
Facility
New York Harbor / Harvard University / Army facility / Blue Hill Observatory / Great Lakes Training Station / Naval Aircraft Factory / /
IndustryTerm
hydrogen gas / desired travel / gas stopping / ground-to-air communications / metal alloys / cap devices / /
NaturalFeature
Loire River / Atlantic Coast / Belle Isle / Wingfoot Lake / Great Lakes / /
Organization
Argentine Navy / Flight Club / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics / War Department / Navy Department / Aerography School / U.S. Navy Command / Army / Navy / Centre d’Aviation Maritime / Joint Technical Board on Aircraft / Red Cross / United States Navy / Harvard University / Aircraft Board / MIT / Harvard / Flight School / Aircraft Production Board / United States Marine Corps / Committee on Light Alloys / First Aviation Squadron / Congress / Ground School / Council of National Defense / Second Yale Unit / /
Person
Naval Aviators (Dirigibles) / Ceferino M. Pouchan / Warren G. Child / L. H. Maxfield / R. G. Pennoyer / George O. Squier / James Lavender / E. W. Coil / Curtiss Jenny / William P. Whitehouse / H. I. Cone / Henry B. Cecil / Zachary Lansdowne / F. T. Evans / Ralph G. Pennoyer / F. P. Culbert / Merrill P. Delano / W. G. Child / J. Borden Harriman / N. E. Irwin / George Crompton / Charles G. Little / Ralph M. Strader / R. Fitz Simon / Frederick P. Culbert / Marcos A. Zar / Lee DeForest / W. M. McIlvain / Arthur S. Williams / Richard C. Gartz / Present / Emory W. Coil / William M. Corry / Noel Chadwick / J. P. Norfleet / Roy S. Geiger / CURTISS HA / Louis H. Maxfield / Ralph Kiely / /
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