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3 days ago · On May 24, 1932, the world’s largest dirigible flew over the Puget Sound to both the delight and consternation of people and animals in the region. The USS Akron (ZRS-4) USS Akron (ZRS-4) and her sister ship USS Macon (ZRS-5) were the first-of-its-class airships built by the U.S. Navy, in Akron, Ohio. Built in 1931, both were 785-foot-long ...
May 5, 2024 · The USS Akron and Macon were two massive aircraft carrying airships built for the US Navy and helped define an era. An overnight sensation "The Zeppelin stowaway, Clarence Terhune, is certainly the most talked about person in Friedrichshafen today.
3 days ago · On May 24, 1932, the world’s largest dirigible flew over the Puget Sound to both the delight and consternation of people and animals in the region. The USS Akron (ZRS-4) USS Akron (ZRS-4) and her sister ship USS Macon (ZRS-5) were the first-of-its-class airships built by the U.S. Navy, in Akron, Ohio. Built in 1931, both were 785-foot-long ...
May 6, 2024 · By Meg Godlewski. May 6, 2024. German airship Zeppelin LZ 129 'Hindenburg' burning upon its approach to Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. U.S. Navy sailors, preparing to ...
2 days ago · USS Macon over Lower Manhattan, 1933. The U.S. Navy experimented with the use of airships as airborne aircraft carriers, developing an idea pioneered by the British. The USS Los Angeles was used for initial experiments, and the USS Akron and Macon, the world's largest
May 6, 2024 · W hen the first airships took to the sky in the mid-19th century, the odd-looking vessels created an aviation sensation. Developed as a successor to the hydrogen balloon, the airship enjoyed its golden years in the 1920s and 1930s. But after the disaster that was the Hindenburg explosion in 1937, airship passenger travel effectively ended ...
May 6, 2024 · 12 February 1935: The United States Navy rigid airship USS Macon (ZRS-5), under the command of Lieutenant Commander Herbert Victor Wiley, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Monterey Bay, on the central California coastline. The airship soon sank to the sea floor, approximately 1,500 feet (457 meters) below.
