MACON, Ga. — On Wednesday, a piece of Macon history was "shipped" across town to a new home. A model of the USS Macon ship was moved from City Hall to the Macon Mall Wednesday morning ...

Associated Press staff illustrator Noel Sickles's "artist's conception" of the crash of the USS Macon into the Pacific Ocean on 12 February 1935. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons For a few ...

At 785 feet long, the dirigible USS Macon was so big, it could hold as many as five fighter planes in its belly. The U.S. Navy airship crashed in 1935 during a violent storm off the coast of ...

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Remote vehicle operators on the Nautilus get a live view of the USS Macon wreck View of the USS Macon wreck Lickliter-Mundon wants to use the 3D photomosaic to learn more about how the Macon sank.

Key Points: In the early 1930s, the U.S. Navy explored the concept of flying aircraft carriers with the rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon. -These massive dirigibles, equipped with hangars and ...

Perhaps the only weapon more formidable than an aircraft carrier for a modern military is a flying aircraft carrier. Almost one century ago, the U.S. Navy explored the concept of airships through ...

On Feb. 12, 1935, during severe weather off Point Sur, Calif., a U.S. Navy flying machine called the USS Macon fell from the sky, plunged into the Pacific Ocean, and sank. It was the nation's ...