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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.
Eventually they utilized aircraft without landing gear to minimize weight - makes for motivated pilots. And I love the logo.
Another triumph for the anti-humans in NOAA and Julie Packard.
The Monterey Bay is now a dead zone, no fishing, recreational boating or maritime commerce thanks to the corrupt NOAA and their pals Julie Packard and her fish prison staff.
They mockingly claim to be ‘preserving’ heritage, but they are only driving human beings, human commerce and activity completely out of the ‘sanctuary’. The only approved users of what was once California State waters and under the control of the state and it’s citizens, is now an out of control federal bureaucracy, NOAA, with their vessel the Fulmar, and Julie Packard’s Western Flyer. They have ‘managed’ fishing into oblivion, destroying cultures and history and the social fabric of the cities and towns on the bay. They have banned vessels from entering the bay and are insanely attacking surfers, recreational boaters and even more bizarrely people who own house cats who live in the Monterey Bay basin.
They are disgusting.
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"The Macon had a structured duraluminum hull with three interior keels.[5] The airship was kept aloft by 12 helium-filled gas cells made from gelatin-latex fabric."Inside the hull, the ship had eight German-made Maybach, 12 cylinder, 560-horsepower gasoline-powered engines that drove outside propellers.[3] The propellers could be rotated down or backwards, providing an early form of thrust vectoring, to control the ship during take-off and landings.
"Designed to carry five F9C Sparrowhawk biplanes, Macon received her first aircraft on board July 6, 1933 during trial flights out of Lakehurst, New Jersey. The planes were stored in bays inside the hull and were launched and retrieved using a trapeze."
