Skip to comments.
Wreck of Airship USS Macon Added to National Register of Historic Places
NOAA ^
| 1/11/2010
| NOAA
Posted on 02/14/2010 10:18:06 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-30 next last
To: sonofstrangelove
2
posted on
02/14/2010 10:28:03 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: sonofstrangelove
3
posted on
02/14/2010 10:33:37 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
To: ccmay
awesome
4
posted on
02/14/2010 10:34:32 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
To: ccmay
5
posted on
02/14/2010 10:35:36 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: sonofstrangelove
This is the Macon's hangar at Moffett Field...
6
posted on
02/14/2010 10:35:54 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: sonofstrangelove; SunkenCiv; blam
Ping to an article on a slightly different archaeological site...
7
posted on
02/14/2010 10:45:19 PM PST
by
TXnMA
(D'Aleo re Hansen's "GISS" temperature database: "Non Gradus Anus Rodentum!")
To: JRios1968
Is that the one Mythbusters have used on occasion?
8
posted on
02/14/2010 10:53:40 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Dignity is earned from yourself. Respect is earned from others.)
To: sonofstrangelove
The USS Macon was one of three rigid airships built by Goodyear in Akron, Ohio. The first was the USS Shenandoah, and the last was the USS Akron. I knew one of the German team of engineers brought over from Germany when Goodyear went into the zeppelin business. I learned navigation under his tutelage.
9
posted on
02/14/2010 10:59:43 PM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: sonofstrangelove
Eventually they utilized aircraft without landing gear to minimize weight - makes for motivated pilots. And I love the logo.
10
posted on
02/14/2010 11:22:12 PM PST
by
stormer
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
That must have been fascinating. The Macon had a far more productive career than its sister ship, Akron. Macon’s commanders developed the doctrine and techniques of using its airplanes to do scouting while the airship remained out of sight of the opposing forces in exercises
11
posted on
02/14/2010 11:46:19 PM PST
by
ErnstStavroBlofeld
("I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution."-Dr.Wernher Von Braun)
To: ccmay
How the heck did they ‘recover’ aircraft?
12
posted on
02/14/2010 11:58:44 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
And lest we forget ...
USS Los Angles (ZR-3).
She was ultimately scraped thus ending the US Navy's era of "dirigibles" - these being replaced with the "blimps."
[As an FYI - See Airshipwreck by Len Deighton and Arnold Schwartzman, Jonathan Cape Ltd. Thirty Bedford Square, London, WC1, 1978.]
13
posted on
02/15/2010 1:55:37 AM PST
by
jamaksin
To: stormer
The only surviving Sparrowhawk (a F9C-2 with landing gear) is in the Udavr-Hazy Center's collection (Smithsonian) at Dulles (near Washington, DC).
It is a simply amazing place!
14
posted on
02/15/2010 2:02:58 AM PST
by
jamaksin
To: jamaksin
“And lest we forget ... USS Los Angles (ZR-3).”
The Los Angeles was built in Germany by Graf Zeppelin and was acquired by the US Navy as war reparations, in the 20’s, renamed the USS Los Angeles. She is the only one of the Navy’s rigid airships that did not crash - scared the hell out of ‘em once at Lakehurst, though, when she was stood on her nose, still moored, by freak conditions.
15
posted on
02/15/2010 6:34:27 AM PST
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: TXnMA
16
posted on
02/15/2010 6:46:19 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
17
posted on
02/15/2010 6:48:36 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
To: Rummyfan
Fly up from the rear, slow down, and catch the hook. The plane is then pulled into the dirigible by crane.
18
posted on
02/15/2010 9:39:37 AM PST
by
stormer
To: jamaksin
I’ve been to Air & Space several times but have never been out to see the stuff at Dulles. It’s on my agenda for my next trip to DC. The Boeing Museum of Flight is worth a visit if you make it to Seattle. There is some discussion of them getting one of the Shuttles when they are taken off line. That would be pretty neat!
19
posted on
02/15/2010 9:44:12 AM PST
by
stormer
To: stormer
Those were some brave men.
20
posted on
02/15/2010 9:53:01 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(The liberals are asking us to give Obama more time. Is 25 to life enough?)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-30 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson