Scrapbook 1963, 1982: Over Schenectady and Albany in the Goodyear Blimp | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Share1 GAZETTE COVERAGE Gazette file photos by Ed Schultz (1982) and Sid Brown (1963) A Goodyear ground crew prepares to help company airship “Columbia” land in Albany in 1963. .
Roy Belotti, who lived in Oxnard, Calif. and was a retired lieutenant commander with the U.S. Navy, keeps and eye on the sky — and his controls — inside Goodyear’s “Columbia” on Aug. 21, 1963. .
Schenectady Gazette reporter Tommy Kahan prepares to board the six-passenger gondola of Goodyear’s “Columbia,” the $750,000 blimp that had been christened Aug. 18, 1963. Kahan took his ride into the sky on Aug. 21, 1963.