Public domain via Wikimedia Commons For a few decades in the early 20th century, giant airships promised to be the future of aviation. But high-profile crashes, like that of the USS Macon on ...

On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” USS Macon (ZRS-5) was lost in a storm of the California coast.

but Brin reportedly caught the airship bug around three years ago after checking out photos of the Hangar 2's previous tenant, the US Navy's USS Macon airship. The sources said Brin's airship ...

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 ...

Last week Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the airship ZRS-5 abuilding, sister ship of the Akron, will be named the Macon.