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Oct 23, 2006 · The 1935 crash of the Navy zeppelin USS Macon off the California coast marked an inglorious end to a unique experiment in aviation. The giant airship was one of only two ''flying aircraft carriers ...
T he USS Akron and USS Macon, helium-filled airships, were the US Navy’s attempt at flying aircraft carriers, offering a skyborne platform for launching and retrieving planes. Despite early ...
One of eight German built Maybach 12 cylinder gasoline engines that served as the propulsion system for the airship. During the 2006 expedition five Maybach engines were located and recorded. Credit: NOAA/MBARI. USS Macon 's mooring mast receptacle assembly, the most forward part of the airship and possibly the last part of the ship to sink.
Time Travel: Exploring a Sunken 1930s Airship. Using advanced survey techniques, a team of researchers headed into Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary to shed new light on the fate of the USS Macon, the largest of the U.S. Navy's ill-fated fleet of military airships. A massive, cigar-shaped dirigible the size of three 747s, the Macon met its ...
USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium -filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933. It was the world's first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier, carrying F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes, which could be launched and recovered while it was in flight.
46 × Bofors 40 mm guns. 28 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannons. USS Macon (CA-132), a Baltimore -class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, was laid down on 14 June 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, New Jersey; launched on 15 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Charles F. Bowden, wife of the mayor of Macon, Georgia; and commissioned on 26 ...
