What You Need to Know: Nearly a century ago, the U.S. Navy ventured into the skies with the Akron-class airships, USS Akron and USS Macon, pioneering the concept of flying aircraft carriers.

Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: In the 1930s, the U.S. Navy experimented with "flying aircraft carriers" in the form of rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon.These massive dirigibles ...

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 in the 1930s ...

The airfield’s extensive history — starting in the 1930s as a base for the Navy airship USS Macon, to eventually its handover to NASA Ames in the 1990s — is on display at the Moffett Field ...

These are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., whose Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. built the Akron and Macon, Carl B. Fritsche’s Metalclad Airship Corp. in Detroit, and Interocean Dirigible Corp., recently ...