Hosted on MSN2mon
The U.S. Navy Built a Real 'Flying' Aircraft Carrier
What You Need to Know: The Akron-class airships, Akron and Macon, represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy's only flying aircraft carriers.Built by Goodyear-Zeppelin ...
Hosted on MSN10mon
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 ...