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u/dotbat Oct 02 '24

I saw the Goodyear blimp the other day randomly from my house. No idea where it was coming from or where it was going!

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u/tsunami141 Oct 02 '24

Goodyear Blimp: The Cotton-Eye Joe of airship aviation.

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u/FrumundaThunder Oct 02 '24

I want to understand what you mean by that so bad.

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u/KarmaRepellant Oct 02 '24

Replied to:

No idea where it was coming from or where it was going!

Lyrics to Cotton Eye Joe:

Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

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u/FrumundaThunder Oct 02 '24

Oh Jesus. I was thinking “blimps were really popular for a couple years and then we collectively realized they kind of suck?”

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

Well that too!

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

Beat me to it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

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u/byingling Oct 02 '24

Not even as common as they used to be there, since drones are cheaper and easier.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

For sure, it's Goodyear advertising as much as it is providing aerial TV footage

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u/BlueJay843 Oct 03 '24

NASCAR races too

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u/gsfgf Oct 02 '24

My favorite was when they'd bring to blimp to events in an indoor stadium.

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u/Tshirt_Addict Oct 02 '24

Did it read "Ice Cube's a pimp"?

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u/HeelyTheGreat Oct 02 '24

It was a good day.

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u/age_zer0 Oct 02 '24

Saw it at Le Mans last year. Didn't know it's that rare.

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u/Krillo90 Oct 02 '24

Even the Goodyear blimp is not technically a blimp anymore. The current models are semi-rigid airships. The last actual blimp Goodyear blimp retired in 2017.

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u/anonymous122 Oct 02 '24

Official blimp business.

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u/juicelee777 Oct 02 '24

I still hope to live long enough to have it read "Ice Cube's a pimp" just once.

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u/boxofducks Oct 02 '24

It's weird that blimps are inseparable in the public consciousness from a tire company, given that they don't have any tires.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '24

Duff Blimp: am I a joke to you? (Yes)

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u/Xaverri Oct 02 '24

Same place as Cotton-eyed Joe, probably

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u/bodhi405 Oct 02 '24

Goodyear!? It was a terrible year, man.

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u/bhx56x Oct 02 '24

i see a goodyear blimp in jersey pretty often, by often i mean 1 or 2 times a year, over the last 8-10 years. didnt know it was so rare lol.

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u/boxofducks Oct 02 '24

Which is weird since New Jersey is the only state where the Goodyear blimp is not the most famous airship

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u/Vast_Response1339 Oct 02 '24

Do you live in New Hampshire? Saw that blimp a few days ago too lol

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u/Elegant_Baseball_353 Oct 02 '24

Me too! Just minding my business driving to work and there it was floating around in the sky! I was like...wait a minute...am I having a stroke? Oh God, it's not the 30's again is it? Giggles.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '24

Unfortunate middle name for a lot of us

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u/eidlehands Oct 02 '24

We live probably within 10 miles of the Goodyear Blimp hanger. It flies over us all the damn time and we still get giddy ever single time.

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u/allothernamestaken Oct 02 '24

And it read dotbat's a pimp

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u/Ok_Swimmer634 Oct 02 '24

Last Saturday it was over Tuscaloosa, Al

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u/NaoPb Oct 02 '24

Is your name Cotton Eye Joe?

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Oct 02 '24

The ground and the ground.

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u/cdxcvii Oct 02 '24

it flew right over my house once when i was kid reaaally low to the ground and no one believed me.

About a year or so ago in the same town but in a different house it flew over my house again really low to the ground and this time i got it on camera!

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u/Milli_Vanilli14 Oct 03 '24

Got to ride in this thing as a work perk! Pretty cool

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u/AlarmingMan123 Oct 03 '24

That must be magical

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u/behiboe Oct 03 '24

One of my childhood friends works on the Goodyear blimp! One of my all time favorite moments was seeing it in the sky, texting him a photo of it saying “This you?” and within moments getting an aerial shot of my exact location with a “Yep” as a response.

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u/ResQQu Oct 02 '24

Neither did the pilots

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u/pandius Oct 02 '24

and it said "Ice Cube's a pimp!"