USS Macon (ZRS-5) was an airship... ATD

[Alex Colter]

If you can get past the over-the-top editing there's a cool Discovery
Channel documentary on th' Macon over at
youtube<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnRnRQjGM1s>chock-full of good
footage too
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de>wrote:

> ‘USS Macon (ZRS-5) was an airship built and operated by the United States
> Navy for scouting. She served as a ”flying aircraft carrier”, launching
> Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk biplane fighters. In service for less than two
> years, in 1935 Macon was damaged in a storm and lost off California’s Big
> Sur coast.’
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> Construction of the USS Macon Airship: http://www.howtobearetronaut.**
> com/2011/08/construction-of-**the-uss-macon-airship-c-1932/<http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/08/construction-of-the-uss-macon-airship-c-1932/>
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