Smithsonian Magazine6d
A 785-Foot Airship Crashed on This Day in 1935. The Location of the Wreck Site Remained a Mystery for More Than 70 Years.
The USS Macon crash brought a quick end to the U.S. Navy’s vision of “flying aircraft carriers” powered by helium gas ...
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Restoration of Rare Airship Shines Light on WWII K-Ship Patrols
Moffett Field Historical Society is in the process of restoring the control car of a World War II-era K-class blimp.
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Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk: The US Biplane Fighter That Was Carried By Airships
Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk In Numbers: Number Built: 8 Surviving Aircraft: 1 (National Air and Space Museum) Motherships: 2 (USS Arkon & USS Macon airships) According to the Smithsonian National Air ...
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One By One: A Brief History Of The US Navy's 5 Airships
The USS Akron (and her sister ship, the USS Macon) were filled with helium. The USS Akron met the same fate that befell so many other rigid airships and was lost in a thunderstorm (off the coast ...
Palo Alto Weekly1y
‘I want us to be known as the STEM place’: Moffett Field Museum is on a mission to modernize
The airfield’s extensive history — starting in the 1930s as a base for the Navy airship USS Macon, to eventually its handover to NASA Ames in the 1990s — is on display at the Moffett Field ...