The USS Macon crash brought a quick end to the U.S. Navy’s vision of “flying aircraft carriers” powered by helium gas ...

The U.S. Navy once bet big on airships, believing they could serve as flying aircraft carriers. The USS Akron and Macon were ...

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: In the 1930s, the U.S. Navy experimented with “flying aircraft carriers” in the form of rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon. These ...

The legacy of Moffett Federal Airfield (KNUQ) in Mountain View, California, is most often associated with Hangar One, the giant 1930s structure built to house the Navy airship USS Macon.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Vice Adm. Daniel Cheever, commander of Naval Air Forces, is confident the Navy will fly its MQ-25s this year and integrate ...

French aircraft carrier, FS Charles De Gaulle (R91) passes alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D ... communications exercises and flying operations were seamless as usual ...

The Navy Air Boss on Jan. 28 confirmed the first MQ-25A Stingray aircraft carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft will start test flying later this year, a necessary step […] ...

Mk24 MOD0 Radar aboard USS George Washington ... MK24 MOD0 radar system provides the aircraft carriers with a dedicated detection, tracking, cueing capability for self-defense against low observable, ...

The other three, the Shenandoah, Akron, and Macon were built by Americans ... the largest flying objects very built. USS Akron The USS Akron was the world’s first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier ...