The Airships Akron and Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy

The Airships Akron and Macon: Flying Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy

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xxii, 228 pp. Richard K. Smith was curious about the big rigid airships of the 1920s and 1930s. He wondered why they had disappeared from the scene of aeronautics. Two of them, the Akron and the Macon, had actually hangared airplanes. Why had such an airplane-carrying airship not been accepted?