Article Summary - In the interwar years, the U.S. Navy tried a radical idea: turn giant rigid airships into “flying aircraft carriers.” -USS Akron and USS Macon carried Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk ...
Brett Crozier is the CEO of LTA Research, leads the team building the next generation of airships. Akron was once the “Airship Capital of the World,” home to the legendary USS Akron and Macon naval ...
“Had the real operational story been known — the handicaps imposed by weather, the fact that scouting missions were flown on no more than one day in four, the uncertainty of navigation — it may be ...