The National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is home to some of the titans of aviation history—think the Lockheed SR-71 and the Air France Concorde. Walking through the lighter-than ...

On this day in aviation history, February 12, 1935, the United States Navy’s scouting airship and “flying aircraft carrier” USS Macon (ZRS-5) was lost in a storm of the California coast.

A sudden wind shear hit the USS Macon. The rigid airship was returning from an exercise off the coast of California, carrying a fleet of F9C-2 Sparrowhawk fighters on trapezes inside its belly.

but Brin reportedly caught the airship bug around three years ago after checking out photos of the Hangar 2's previous tenant, the US Navy's USS Macon airship. The sources said Brin's airship ...

Who knows, maybe the idea of a flying aircraft carrier like the 1930s-era USS Macon (ZRS-5) will be revived once more, after that humble airship’s impressive list of successes.

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 ...

Last week Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, revealed that the airship ZRS-5 abuilding, sister ship of the Akron, will be named the Macon.