New Dirigible on Trial Flights 1933/4/24

Akron, Ohio: Striking views of the official tests of the USS Macon, the largest airship in the world, just completed for the U.S. Navy. She is a sister ship of the wrecked Akron." (some parts silent of this partial newsreel without narration)

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• Akron
• Ohio
• zeppelin
• Dirigible
• airship

[HoaxKAMEPA]

The Macon was the largest airship in the world when it crashed on February 12th, 1935.  The Hindenburg first flew on March 4th, 1936, over a year later, and it was also the largest airship in the world when it crashed.

[TheTrueHistory]

These forgotten flying Giants were the fuel-economic defenders of our Atlantic & Pacific coasts, looking always for possibles enemies. If you wanna know more about the Akron & Macon, the only 2 airships airplane-carriers in the whole Mankind History & PLAY with them, look for "War Plan Orange" an Avalanche Press War-game. The last of them died in 1937, missing WWII's tours of duty for only 4 years. Imagine what if? they were scouting outside Pearl Harbor in the fatidic morning of Dec 7, 1941!!

[Peter43John]

@applesweeter for the same reasons why I would love to take the QM2 to Europe or travel on The 20th Century Limited to New York or the Super Chief to Los Angeles: GETTING THERE IS 1/2 THE FUN! What is traveling by airplane today when the top airplane manufacturer in the world is called "Airbus"???-I rest my case!

[paqman67]

@MusicLover2840 The Macon was made in 1933, the USS Akron (twin sister ship) was made in 1931. The Hindenburg design was a copy of the Akron/Macon ships. Hugo Eckner planned in making the LZ 128 as a "stretched" version of the original Graf Zeppelin. When he saw the Akron in 1931 and saw the huge size, wide girth and carrying of passangers inside the ships hull instead of inside the gondola, like previous Zeppelins, he exclaimed "That's not a Zepelin!!" in wonderment. Hindenburg was made in 1936

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some questions about psychology:

(1) Why do we love flying?

(2) Why do we want to design new airship in this "jet-age"?

(3) What is the enjoyment to fly airship as a pilot and as a passenger?

(4) Why do we like to draw beautiful painting on an airship surface?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[jgrab1]

The Macon was 785 feet, so the new ship is a lot smaller. The very first Zeppelin, the LZ-1, launched in 1900, was 400 feet, already nearly twice as long as the Eureka.

[johnb10000]

There is a new Zeppelin called the Eureka that currently takes 12 people on passenger rides in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is based at Moffet Field next to the hanger that that used to house the USS Macon.

It is 246 feet long which is about half the size of the USS Macon and it is currently the largest airship in the world.

[sumsky56]

yeah, the biggest was a thousand some feet with a built in aircraft bay, but never launched...it was made into a musuem in germany.

[cellarbuoy]

This airship actually had the ability to launch and retrieve small by plane while in flight.A sort of air borne aircraft carrier

Are there any clips out there of it actually doing this

[toadmaster4]

If only i were alive at the time...../cry