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USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", carrying up to five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk parasite biplanes for scouting or two-seat Fleet N2Y-1s for training. In service for less than two years, the Macon was damaged in a storm and lost off ...
USS Macon Mapping and Survey Expedition 2015. Eighty years ago, the U.S. Navy's last great airship crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared. The USS Macon 's location was lost until researchers discovered its remains 1,500 feet below the surface of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 1990.
Marie Wiley Ross noticed the girder structure. She had seen airship girders like this one as a child with her father, Lt. Comdr. Herbert V. Wiley, who commanded the Macon. Wiley, who was in command of the airship at the time of its loss, had also survived the loss of the USS Akron, the Macon’s sister-ship. Scientists were unaware of Marie’s ...
Aug 19, 2015 · The sinking of USS Macon (ZRS-5), a lighter-than-air rigid airship, resulted in few deaths but its loss ended the Navy’s quest to use airships as long-range scouts for the fleet.
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Her eight Maybach engines, which drove three-bladed metal propellers, gave her a cruising speed of 55 knots and a range of about 6,000 miles. Her maximum speed was 75. An airship, she was the USS Macon (ZRS-5). The Navy had other rigid airships—the kind with an internal frame—before her. All had been called, as was the Macon, “Queen of ...
USS Macon Mapping and Survey Expedition 2015. In February 1935, the was damaged in a storm off Point Sur, Calif. With the airship losing altitude, the captain ordered crew to dump ballast. It rose to a height of 5,000 feet before slowly falling tail-first into the ocean. All but two of the 83 crew members survived.
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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 ...
