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	USS Macon \| Page 1
		The intent of the strong spine was to prevent the type of hull collapse that occurred with one of the Macon's predecessors, the Shenandoah.
		The Macon had accommodations for 100 officers and crew, including sleeping berths, a large mess room, a galley and observation platform at the nose and tail.
		The giant USS Macon landed at Moffett Field on October 16, 1933.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/macon.html (0 words)

	USS Macon (CA-132) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		USS Macon (CA-132) was laid down 14 June 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J. ; launched 15 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		Macon’s first fleet assignment was with the 8th Fleet, which she joined soon after her shakedown cruise.
		She patrolled in the eastern Mediterranean during the Suez Crisis of 1956; took part in the International Naval Review celebrating the 350th Anniversary of the foundation of Jamestown, Virginia, 12 June 1957; and participated in the NATO exercise operation “Strikeback”, conducted in the North Sea and Arctic Ocean in September 1957.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/USS_Macon_%28CA-132%29 (583 words)

	USS Macon (ZRS-5)
		USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid frame airship built and operated by the United States Navy and designated for scouting purposes.
		Macon was commissioned on June 23 1933 with Commander Alger H. Dresel in command.
		Macon, having completed 50 flights from her commissioning date, was stricken from the Navy list on February 26 1935.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/uss_macon__zrs_5_.html (514 words)

	USS Macon (CA-132)
		USS Macon (CA‑132) was laid down 14 June 1943 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.; launched 15 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs.
		Charles F. Bowden, wife of the mayor of Macon, Ga.; and commissioned 26 August 1945 at Philadelphia, Capt. Edward E. Pare in command.
		On the night of 19 to 20 January 1959, Macon, steaming from Cartagena to Marseilles, diverted from her course and sped to the aid of burning Italian merchant ship Maria Amata.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/u/us/uss_macon__ca_132_.html (553 words)

	Ocean expedition explores submerged wreck of historic naval airship USS Macon in NOAA Monterey Bay Sanctuary - Images
		The USS Macon was constructed with a built-in aircraft hangar and a trapeze launch and recovery system to facilitate fighter planes intended to protect the aircraft in war.
		This photograph shows the USS Akron, sister ship to the USS Macon, attached to its mooring mast, which rode on railroad tracks and was used to move the airship to mooring circles at either end of the hangar at Moffett Field.
		The USS Macon first arrived at Moffett Field on October 16, 1933 and was housed at Hangar One.
	www.mbari.org /news/news_releases/2006/macon-images.html (0 words)

	Science Fair Projects - USS Macon (ZRS-5)
		Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Macon, named in honor of the city of Macon, Georgia.
		The first Macon, (ZRS-5), was an airship, commissioned in 1933 and struck in 1935.
		The second Macon, (CA-132), was a Baltimore-class cruiser, commissioned in 1945 and struck in 1969.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/USS_Macon (217 words)

	Stanford engineers shed light on the crash of the USS Macon, last of the 'flying aircraft carriers'
		In 1933, the Macon was deployed to the West Coast and berthed at a specially built hangar at Moffett Air Field in Sunnyvale, Calif., a few miles from the Stanford campus.
		According to Moffett Field historians, the Navy planned to use the Macon and its Sparrowhawks as long-range reconnaissance for the Pacific Fleet, warning Navy battleships of distant threats from air and sea.
		The Macon was a common sight back then as it shuttled to and from its hangar at nearby Moffett Field.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-10/su-ses101806.php (1304 words)

	Airdisaster.Com Forums - View Single Post - USS Macon airship crash (flying aircraft carrier)
		The USS Macon was one of four zeppelins the Navy flew in the 1920s and '30s.
		And the Macon's sister ship, the USS Akron, crashed in the Atlantic shortly before the USS Macon took her first flight.
		The son of the USS Macon's squadron commander, a friend of Terrell's, is hunting for his father's flight logs to see if one of the crafts the expedition identified is his father's plane.
	www.airdisaster.com /forums/showpost.php?p=453935&postcount=1 (0 words)

	NPR : Researchers Explore a Giant Flying Machine Below
		Some of USS Macon's officers aboard the USS Richmond, the ship that came to rescue them, on the morning after the airship crashed in a violent storm off the California coast, Feb. 12, 1935.
		One of four biplanes that went down with the USS Macon is shown in a photo taken during a 1991 survey of the wreck.
		The Macon, built in Akron, Ohio, first flew in April 1933, only a few weeks after its sister ship, the USS Akron, crashed off the New Jersey coast, killing all but three of the 67 men on board.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6085337 (0 words)

	Akron & Macon
		The Akron and her sister ship, the Macon have the honor of going down in history as the world's only fully functioning aerial aircraft carriers.
		The death of the Macon on February 12,1935 would be once again due to high winds but not only.
		As helium poured out of her torn rear cells, the Macon dropped all water ballast she could in an attempt to maintain altitude.
	www.ciderpresspottery.com /ZLA/greatzeps/american/Akron_Macon.html (1330 words)

	MBNMS: USS Macon Dirigible
		The USS Macon, a 785-foot dirigible, was lost offshore of Point Sur on February 12, 1935 when she foundered tail first into the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean.
		The USS Macon was the last U.S. built rigid lighter-than-air craft and at 785 feet in length was the largest of the design.
		The USS Macon foundered tail first into the Pacific off the coast of Point Sur with 81 of the 83 men onboard surviving the crash.
	bonita.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov /research/macon/welcome.html (542 words)

	USN Aircraft--USS Macon (ZRS-5), airship 1933-1935
		USS Macon, sister of the 6,500,000 cubic foot rigid airship Akron (ZRS-4), was built at Akron, Ohio.
		During the rest of 1933 Macon and her embarked airplanes began what would be an extensive program of participation in exercises off the Pacific Coast, testing her abilities for fleet scouting and other missions.
		Macon made a long-distance flight over the Pacific Ocean in mid-July to intercept the cruiser Houston (CA-30), which was carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt from Panama to Hawaii.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/ac-usn22/z-types/zrs5.htm (0 words)

	CDNN :: Scientists Use ROV to Map Wreckage of USS Macon
		The USS Macon, a 785-foot rigid dirigible three times longer than a 747 jet, was one of the largest aircraft ever built when it sank into Pacific waters about five miles off Big Sur on Feb. 12, 1935.
		The Macon became a symbol of hope during the Great Depression when it was built by Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. in Ohio and launched in 1933.
		The Macon was flying from Southern California to its hangar in Moffett Field in Mountain View when its tail fin was blown off during a storm, causing it to slowly fall into the Pacific Ocean.
	www.cdnn.info /news/science/sc060926.html (560 words)

	NAA Photo Archive - U.S.S. Macon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The U.S.S. Macon was christened on March 13, 1933 by the wife of the Chief of Aeronautics, Mrs.
		With Los Angeles grounded and Akron gone, Macon was pressured to demonstrate the potential of lighter-than-air craft despite an awareness of "minor" structural deficiencies which should have been corrected by a prudent pause for routine maintenance.
		Macon had flown 54 flights/1,798 hours in her 23 months of service.
	www.naval-airships.org /zrs5.html (111 words)

	MBNMS: USS Macon Dirigible
		The USS Macon, a 785-foot dirigible, was lost offshore of Point Sur on February 12, 1935 when she foundered tail first into the chilly waters of the Pacific Ocean.
		The USS Macon was the last U.S. built rigid lighter-than-air craft and at 785 feet in length was the largest of the design.
		The USS Macon foundered tail first into the Pacific off the coast of Point Sur with 81 of the 83 men onboard surviving the crash.
	www.montereybay.noaa.gov /research/macon/welcome.html (542 words)

	2006 USS Macon Expedition - A Technical Perspective
		The USS Macon and her sister ship the USS Akron were designed and constructed by Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation.
		The Macon and her sister ship the Akron were kept aloft by non-flammable helium contained in twelve large cells inside the craft.
		The Macon was housed at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, California in 1934 and 1935.
	www.sanctuaries.noaa.gov /missions/2006macon/technical.html (0 words)

	MBNMS: USS Macon Dirigible, 2006 Expedition
		The primary goal of the mission was to conduct comprehensive documentation of the site of the USS Macon’s loss that can be used to evaluate the archaeological context of the craft.
		Video footage and images from the 1991 survey of the USS Macon indicate the submerged remains serve as an artificial reef in the deep sea.
		To characterize the habitat and species composition associated with the wreck (and surrounding area), megafaunal invertebrates and fishes were identified using using a remotely operated vehicle equipped with digital video camera and still camera.
	montereybay.noaa.gov /research/macon/2006.html (0 words)

	USS Macon \| Page 2
		Largely because of that decision, this would be the Macon's 54th and final flight.
		Former USS Macon engineer George Weldy, 89, one of the few surviving U.S. military dirigible crew members, recalled in an interview that fate took a big part in his life while he worked on airships.
		The Macon was the nation's last rigid airship.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/macon2.html (0 words)

	New Photos Reveal 1935 Airship at Bottom of Pacific Ocean \| LiveScience
		Images show the airship's hangar bay, containing four Sparrowhawk biplanes, five of the eight 12-cylinder gasoline engines, and objects from the ship's galley, including two sections of the aluminum stove, propane tanks that supplied fuel for it and a dining table and bench.
		A second debris field contained the Macon's bow section, including the mooring mast receptacle, plus aluminum chairs and desks that may have been in a port side officers' or meteorologist's office.
		The exact location of the submerged wreckage remained a mystery for nearly 50 years until a commercial fisherman snagged a piece of the USS Macon's girder in his net, and ended up displaying the artifact at a local seafood restaurant.
	www.livescience.com /history/060928_airship_wreck.html (0 words)

	Macon emerges from history’s depths
		The Macon first arrived at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale on Oct. 16, 1933, and was housed at Hangar One.
		In 1933, the Macon was deployed to the West Coast and berthed at a specially built hangar at Moffett Air Field in Sunnyvale, Calif., a few miles from the Stanford campus.
		Only two of the Macon's 83-man crew died in the accident, but the spectacular failure of both airships prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to appoint retired Stanford engineering Professor William F. Durand to head a commission to re-evaluate the Navy's use of zeppelins.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2006/october18/macon-101806.html (1284 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.
		As the USS Macon floats surreptitiously over the clouds, a distant Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk returns to the Macon, its aerial base, as another pulls away for another training flight.
		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 (563 words)

	CDNN :: Huge USS Macon Blimp Crashed, Sank off California Coast
		Back in the 1930s one such contraption, a "rigid airship" called the USS Macon, hit strong winds and sank into the ocean off Point Sur in Monterey County.
		Seventy years ago, 83 crew members on the Macon were returning from a mission when their dirigible ran into a storm off the Central Coast.
		The Macon saga represents a unique part of American aviation history, as well as the Central Coast's past, said Tim Thomas of the Maritime Museum of Monterey.
	www.cdnn.info /news/industry/i050522b.html (821 words)

	News : Multimedia -- Macon.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Macon native honored after dying in the line of duty.
		Macon's arena football shuts down after six seasons.
		A two-minute tour of Macon's 12 historic districts.
	www.philly.com /mld/macon/news/multimedia (425 words)

	MBNMS: USS Macon Dirigible, 2006 Expedition
		The primary goal of the mission was to conduct comprehensive documentation of the site of the USS Macon’s loss that can be used to evaluate the archaeological context of the craft.
		Video footage and images from the 1991 survey of the USS Macon indicate the submerged remains serve as an artificial reef in the deep sea.
		To characterize the habitat and species composition associated with the wreck (and surrounding area), megafaunal invertebrates and fishes were identified using using a remotely operated vehicle equipped with digital video camera and still camera.
	www.montereybay.noaa.gov /research/macon/2006.html (735 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.
		One of the proudest moments for either of the two zeppelins came in 1934 after the Macon having been sent on manuvers over the Pacific and ignobly shot down twice in eight hours came whirring back determined to prove herself.
		While the navy brass was pissed of at Wiley, the Lt. Commander was praised by FDR for showing that the zeppelins could indeed do the job they had been meant for.
	www.trincoll.edu /~ncurtis/greenline/zeps.html (866 words)

	USS Macon Airship DVD video VHS films movies documentary
		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.
		This film is mostly raw footage of the USS Los Angeles, USS Akron and USS Macon under construction, with very little editing done.
		From conception to first flight, from tragedy to triumph, this riveting documentary explores the early airships and their place as a catalyst for world travel from the 1920s-1940s.
	www.johnjohn.co.uk /shop/video_alpha/plane_uss_macon.html (365 words)

	Uncovering the USS Macon: The Underwater Airship - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
		The military zeppelin USS Macon was meant to be a floating American aircraft carrier over the Pacific Ocean -- but it crashed, sank and has been lying on the ocean floor for more than 70 years.
		The Macon hit the water surface only five kilometers (three miles) off the Californian coast, along the latitude of the Point Sur lighthouse near Monterey, on Feb. 12, 1935.
		The loss of the USS Macon in 1935 marked the end of the US Navy's dirigible program, which already had a 20-year history then.
	www.spiegel.de /international/0,1518,441035,00.html (0 words)

	USS Macon Slideshows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These photos of the Mediterranean cruise and St. Lawrence Seaway cruise have been sent in by Ron Reda, RD3 who was in OI division during his tour on the Macon.
		More photos from other members of their tours on the Macon would also be most welcome.
		Don was stationed aboard the Macon in 1958 and 1959 and was assigned to FOX division.
	www.britesites.com /macon/slidemain.htm (0 words)

	NOAA News Online (Story 2708)
		The surveys recorded the visual wreckage USS Macon through high-definition videotape and still imagery that will be used to create a photo-mosaic of the two debris fields.
		During flight, the pilot would position the aircraft below the USS Macon’s hanger where a trapeze was lowered to hook the plane.
		The USS Macon's two debris fields, designated by scientists as debris fields A and B, measure 60 meters in diameter and are elevated several meters above the seafloor.
	www.noaanews.noaa.gov /stories2006/s2708.htm (1032 words)

	Cruiser Photo Index CA-132 USS MACON
		Two Hundred tons of Armor Plate from the USS Macon have been put to use at the Fermi National Accelerator Labratory.
		Taken from the USS Robert K. Huntington (DD-781) while in the Med - 1951 or 1952.
		Alongside the USS Robert K. Huntington (DD-781) transfering what appears to be a strecher while in the Med - 1951 or 1952..
	www.navsource.org /archives/04/132/04132.htm (0 words)

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