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	USS Akron (ZRS-4) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akron conducted her maiden flight on the afternoon of 23 September 1931, around the Cleveland, Ohio, area, with Secretary of the Navy Adams and Rear Admiral Moffett embarked.
		Akron and her sister ship USS Macon (ZRS-5) (the latter still under construction) were regarded as potential "flying aircraft carriers", carrying parasite fighters for their own defence.
		Akron underwent a period of voyage repairs upon her return from the west coast, and in July took part in a search for Curlew, a yacht which had failed to reach port at the end of a race to Bermuda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Akron_(ZRS-4) (2368 words)

	USS Akron (ZRS-4) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a rigid (A steerable self-propelled airship) airship of the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy.
		Akron and her sister ship (Click link for more info and facts about USS Macon (ZRS-5)) USS Macon (ZRS-5) (the latter still under construction) were regarded as potential "flying aircraft carriers", carrying (Click link for more info and facts about parasite fighter) parasite fighters for their own defence.
		Within hours of this event, Akron was on her way south, down the eastern seaboard and shaping a course toward (A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Florida.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/u/us/uss_akron_(zrs-4)5.htm (2230 words)

	Airship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One example for these is the first American-built rigid dirigible ZR-1 "USS Shenandoah" ("daughter of the stars", with ZR standing for "Zeppelin Rigid"), which flew in 1923.
		USS Akron was caught by a microburst and driven down into the surface of the sea off the shore of New Jersey in 1933.
		USS Macon broke up after suffering a structural failure in its upper fin off the shore of Point Sur in California in 1935.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Airship (3795 words)

	NAA Photo Archive - U.S.S. Akron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The first of two fleet scouting airships of 6,500,000 cubic feet volume, Akron was christened on August 8, 1931 in her name city, Akron, Ohio, by another first lady, Mrs.
		Akron's trapeze was designed to allow her heavier-than-air scout planes to be stowed in an internal hangar.
		Instrumentation affected by rapid changes in atmospheric pressure was a probable contributing factor to Akron's loss at sea on April 4, 1933, with all but 3 of her crew of 73 lost in the tragedy.
	www.naval-airships.org /zrs4.html (94 words)

	Akron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akron is the name of several places in the United States of America and Canada:
		Akron, Ohio - Largest of the municipalities named Akron.
		University of Akron is a university in Akron, Ohio
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akron (111 words)

	(( Shipwreck Central )) -Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Built by Akron, Ohio’s new partnership, the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation, the two giant sisters, ZRS-4 and ZRS-5, commissioned as USS Akron and USS Macon, were behemoths of the air.
		Akron and Macon had their own propellers, mounted on outriggers that swiveled in 90° arcs.
		Akron did not fly that day, but the zeppelin’s first flight, on September 23, did not disappoint onlookers as Akron dramatically flew over Ohio, stopping traffic.
	www.shipwreckcentral.com /Akron_2.htm (1017 words)

	USS Akron Airship
		USS Akron, first of a class of two 6,500,000 cubic foot rigid airships, was built at Akron, Ohio.
		During the remainder of 1931 and the early part of 1932, Akron made flights around the eastern United States and over the western Atlantic, including one trial of her capabilities as a scouting unit of the fleet.
		I noticed that you have a picture of memorial cachet for the USS Akron (ZRS-4).
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /uss-akron.htm (464 words)

	Akron: News Releases 2003: AKRON HISTORY RETURNS TO THE CANAL
		The display also highlights Akron’s glory period as the center for the design and manufacture of farm implements such as mowers and reapers that were made possible through patents for improvements to farm machinery by Lewis Miller.
		The Akron-based Lighter Than Air Society exhibit features the propeller from the giant airship USS Akron, launched from the legendary Akron airdock in 1931, along with photos and memorabilia from the city’s 90-year history of building balloons, blimps, and airships.
		The City of Akron coordinated the new exhibit with the Summit County Historical Society, with generous contributions of labor and artifacts from: the Lighter Than Air Society, the American Toy Marble Museum, the University of Akron Archives, the Akron-Summit County Public Library, TV Dinner Club Museum, and the Ohio and Erie Canal Corridor Coalition.
	www.ci.akron.oh.us /News_Releases/2003/0702.html (907 words)

	A new home at Lakehurst
		Since the contracts were signed for the Akron and her yet to be constructed sister ship in 1928 activity at the base had increased precipitously.
		By the time the Akron arrived at Lakehurst there were some three hundred enlisted men and twelve officers, including base commander Captain H. Shoemaker, assigned to the base, plus seventy enlisted men and twelve officers of the Los Angeles.
		The Akron brought with her an additional seventy-five enlisted men and sixteen officers, plus her airplane pilots and mechanics.
	www.nlhs.com /anewhome.htm (669 words)

	Congressman Sherrod Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ship, named AKRON by Navy Secretary Charles Francis Adams, was christened on August 8, 1931, and flown to her duty station at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
		At 785 feet in length, the USS AKRON was almost as long as the IOWA-class battleships commissioned a decade later.
		The AKRON's 100 tons and a crew of 89 were carried aloft by 6.5 million cubic feet of nonflamable helium.
	www.house.gov /sherrodbrown/ussakron.htm (344 words)

	US Airships in General Quarters
		The Macon which was the sister ship of the USS Akron, (named after the location of the constructors - Goodyear-Zeppelin of Akron Ohio) were "rigid" airships as their means of lift was a metal "cigar", which was compartmentalised and filled with gas.
		The Akron and the Macon, which followed up this ship, all ended their service careers as air disasters, the only US airship which ended its days safely was the USS Los Angeles.
		The USS Macon was built in 1933, and made its maiden flight just three weeks after the loss of the Akron, under the command of Comdr Alger H. Dressel.
	www.btinternet.com /~david.manley/naval/genquar/airships.htm (1461 words)

	Rigid Airships At Lakehurst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The USS Los Angeles was German built and given to the Navy as a part of WWI reparations.
		On 6 Oct 1928, contracts for the Akron and Macon (ZRS-5) were awarded to the Goodyear-Zepplin Company.
		On 23 Sep 1931, the Akron made its first flight and on 27 Oct 1931 was commissioned at Lakehurst with LCDR Rosendahl as C.O. On 3 Nov 1931, it made a ten hour flight with 207 people aboard, the most ever carried aloft in one aircraft to that date - a world's record.
	www.lakehurst.navy.mil /nlweb/rigid-airships.asp (581 words)

	(( Shipwreck Central )) -Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lieutenant Commander Herbert Wiley knew USS Akron was doomed as the huge zeppelin’s stern dipped and the bow nosed steeply into the night sky.
		Eight propellers beating at the wind push Akron higher, but stern first, the massive dirigible was falling from the sky.
		As the altimeter in the control car’s cabin spun rapidly, Wiley, a veteran airman, quickly calculated that Akron was falling at a speed of 14 feet per second.
	www.shipwreckcentral.com /Akron.htm (923 words)

	Websitement Rides The Goodyear Blimp
		Akron, Ohio, the company's corporate headquarters, became the center of blimp manufacturing.
		The USS Akron and USS Macon were designed as aerial aircraft carriers and could launch and retrieve specially equipped planes planes while in flight Although a good concept, sadly, both airships were lost in storms within two years of going into service, effectively ending the era or the rigid airships.
		There are three airship classifications, rigid, like the Akron and Macon; semi-rigid, which have rigid keels that run the length of the envelope; and non-rigid, like Goodyear's Eagle, Stars and Stripes and Spirit of Akron.
	www.websitement-tm.com /blimp.htm (1601 words)

	Zepplelin Pictures
		USS Akron full length port side angle from rear to bow.
		USS Akron full length port side in flight photo taken a little above showing airship and land below.
		USS Shenandoah ZR1 moored to mast aboard USS Patoka.
	www.grampiesbarn.com /zeppictures.htm (1400 words)

	Airship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One example for these is the first American-built rigid dirigible USS Shenandoah (ZR-1)ZR-1 "USS Shenandoah" ("daughter of the stars", with ZR standing for "Zeppelin Rigid"), which flew in 1923.
		USS Akron (ZRS-4)USS Akron was caught by a microburst and driven down into the surface of the sea off the shore of New Jersey in 1933.
		USS Macon (ZRS-5)USS Macon/ broke up after suffering a structural failure in its upper fin off the shore of Point Sur in California in 1935.
	www.infothis.com /find/Airship (4038 words)

	Ghost Ship - MontereyCountyWeekly.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macon History: Unfortunately, the legacy of the USS Macon and its rigid airship siblings is one of disaster and tragedy.
		The only surviving officer of the Akron, Wiley was determined to avoid a similar tragedy by performing a controlled crash into the sea.
		Wiley and the USS Macon were returning from their successful maneuvers with the Pacific Fleet when they encountered severe storm winds off Point Sur.
	www.montereycountyweekly.com /issues/Issue.08-04-2005/news/Article.news1/print (1842 words)

	(( Shipwreck Central )) -Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This clearly is not the wreckage of USS Akron.
		We had hoped to find some trace of the majestic queen of the sky here, but what it appears is that the decades have taken their toll on the duralumin, steel wire and fabric.
		We also have been given the means to learn more about these amazing airships and share their story with an audience of 30 million people worldwide who watch the Sea Hunters – with a first and exclusive sharing with the readers of The Vancouver Sun.
	www.shipwreckcentral.com /Akron_5.htm (867 words)

	USN Aircraft--USS Akron (ZRS-4), airship 1931-1933
		USS Akron (ZRS-4) -- Views of Her Heavier-Than-Air Group; and
		USS Akron (ZRS-4) -- Construction, Christening & Miscellaneous Views.
		The Schuykill River waterworks and the Philadelphia Art Museum are visible in the lower center of the photograph.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zrs4.htm (812 words)

	Akron and Macon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Akron and Macon were two rigid airships built in the United States for the U.S. Navy.
		They were the most expensive aircraft built by the United States until after World War II—the Akron cost $4.5 million, and the Macon cost $3.5 million.
		It was wrecked in a storm off the New Jersey coast on April 4, 1933, and only three of the 76 men on board survived.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/akron_macon/DI4.htm (182 words)

	War Zeppelins of the 1930's
		However, as the British had proved during WWI when their incindiery bullets shot from cloth-skinned bi-planes had brought down the pride of the Kaiser's airship fleet in flames, the zeppelin was a large and vulernable creature.
		The sparrow-hawk squadron's insignia made light of the tricky sounding operation of grabbing the trapeze, showing a very large and genially smiling circus strong-man reaching down from the trapeze to catch the hands of his wiry partner.
		While the U.S. had helium reserves they were limited and unlike hydrogen-filled ships which could be profligate with their gas, venting it left and right to trim the hull, the Akron and Macon did not have this luxury.
	www.trincoll.edu /~ncurtis/greenline/zeps.html (866 words)

	USS Macon \| Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On April 21, 1933, the USS Macon, costing $2.5 million, left Akron, Ohio on its maiden voyage.
		Known officially as ZRS-5 the USS Macon, more modern and slightly faster that its sister ship, the Akron ZRS-4, had a top speed of about 87 miles per hour.
		The giant USS Macon landed at Moffett Field on October 16, 1933.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/macon.html (484 words)

	Moffett Museum Giftshop
		This two-hour long video focuses on the USS Akron and the USS Macon, two lighter-than-air ships that were built for the U.S. Navy in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
		Filled with interviews with survivors of the Akron, rare footage and extensive photos of ships such as the Los Angeles, Shenandoah and Macon, this is a fascinating ride back in time.
		Here we see the USS Macon that, along with its sister-ship the USS Akron, was the pinnacle of rigid airship development in America.
	www.moffettfieldmuseum.org /giftshop.html (572 words)

	Welcome to eModelAirplanes
		The story of the Akron and her naval sister rigid airships the Macon and forerunner the Shenandoah grip the imagination.
		And so the Akron became NUMA's prime target, especially since she crashed in only 105 feet of water and took 78 men with her, including Admiral William Moffett, considered the father of Naval aviation.
		AKRON Built: 1931 Sunk: April 4, 1933 Previous names: ZR-4 Depth: 105 feet Grass Tonnage: 200 Dimensions: 785' Type of vessel: Rigid dirigible Power: 8 Gasoline engines Builder: Goodyear-Zeppelin Company, Akron, OH Owner: United States Navy Port of Registry: Lakehurst, NJ Cause of sinking: Crashed in a storm Location:
	www.planemuseum.com /ussakron.html (466 words)

	USN Aircraft--USS Akron (ZRS-4) -- Construction, Christening & Miscellaneous Views
		USS Akron was built by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation in a specially-constructed airship hangar at Akron, Ohio.
		This page features all the views we have of USS Akron's construction, plus miscellaneous images related to her.
		Notables on the speakers' stand during Akron's christening ceremonies, held in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation "air dock" hangar at Akron, Ohio.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zrs4-v.htm (720 words)

	Aliens Blamed For 'Ghost Blimp' Mystery 60 Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It was regarded as a local tragedy because one of the missing pilots was a former Akron resident whose in-laws still lived in town.
		Ernest D. Cody, 27, pilot of the L-8, had lived in Akron and was married to the former Helen Haddock, daughter of Akron Goodyear employee Richard L. Haddock and his wife, Juanita.
		Cody was an experienced pilot who in April 1942 may have changed the course of history by guiding the L-8 to a rendezvous with the USS Hornet in the Pacific.
	www.virtuallystrange.net /ufo/updates/2002/aug/m15-024.shtml (1013 words)

	USS Akron - Scout Cover
		It was constructed at the Goodyear Plant in Akron, Ohio along with the sister air ship the U.S.S. Macon.
		The USS Akron Zeppelin or Dirigible flights of 1932 and 1933, included at least one piece of Scout mail.
		The cover cachet commemorates the USS Akron first flight to Miami, Florida on January 4, 1933.
	www.sossi.org /aero/akron.htm (328 words)

	US Rigid 20's-30's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		USS Los Angeles at the Ringlaying of the ZRS-4
		Admiral Moffett at the christening of the USS Akron
		USS Macon (ZRS-5) at the Air Dock, Akron Ohio
	www.uakron.edu /archival/usrigid.htm (1048 words)

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