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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.
5 Οκτ 2006 · Meant to be a flying aircraft carrier over the Pacific, the USS Macon sank in the ocean and remained there undiscovered for 70 years.
11 Φεβ 2018 · The two airships, USS Akron (ZRS-4) and USS Macon (ZRS-5), were commissioned into the fleet to serve as early intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance motherships. Sailors lived aboard the airship, complete with a galley and other amenities, and the biplanes would go out on scouting missions as needed.
4 Αυγ 2005 · The USS Macon, the nation’s largest rigid airship, was doomed. He ordered the vessel to be turned away from the sharp marine terraces of Big Sur and out to sea, towards the rescue ships that were closing in on his distress signals.
Macon made a long-distance flight over the Pacific Ocean in mid-July 1934 to intercept the cruiser USS Houston (CA-30), which was carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Panama to Hawaii.
19 Αυγ 2015 · In the 1920s and 1930s, the Navy experimented with lighter-than-air craft in its fleet. In addition to work with blimps, it built and commissioned two dirigibles – with USS designation – to serve as flying aircraft carriers.
A sudden wind shear hit the USS Macon. The rigid airship was returning from an exercise off the coast of California, carrying a fleet of F9C-2 Sparrowhawk fighters on trapezes inside its belly.
