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Roy Belotti of Oxnard, Calif., and a retired lieutenant commander with the U.S. Navy, keeps an eye on the sky inside Goodyear’s Columbia airship on the Aug. 21, 1963, flight.
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Goodyear blimp visit in '63
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Posted: June 4, 2012
Some people always became excited when Goodyear’s most famous representative was in town.
“It’s the blimp!” kids would say, as the giant balloon floated over backyards and side streets. Mothers and fathers would run for movie cameras, hoping to secure scenes of the dynamic dirigible.
In 1963, Goodyear’s Columbia made appearances over the Capital Region. The silver airship touched down at Albany County Airport in Colonie on Wednesday, Aug. 21. It was one of the first visits anywhere for Columbia, which had been christened just three days earlier.
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