Goodyear Blimp visit to Watertown International Airport 9/1/07

For the first time in over 20 years the Goodyear Blimp was back in Watertown. I made a couple trips over to the Watertown airport before it finally made it. There were a fair number of people there, watching and waiting for it to land.

The blimp had to circle for a bit until the ground crew got their mooring tower set up.














Here you can see one of the support vehicles, which had the mooring tower disassembled as well as tools and even a small workshop in the vehicle.

In these photos you can see the blimp coming in for a landing and then the ground crew grabbing the sides of the gondola and the lines. Note the guy at the top of the mooring tower.

You can see larger photos here