Exploring the Macon
NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program is leading the effort to survey the wreck of one of the Navy's lost airships:
The 785-foot USS Macon, a U.S. Navy "dirigible," and its four Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk aircraft were lost on February 12, 1935, during severe weather offshore of Point Sur, Calif., on a routine flight from the Channel Islands to its home base at Moffett Field. The wreckage of the USS Macon provides an opportunity to study the relatively undisturbed archaeological remnants of a unique period of U.S. aviation history.
I've written on these unique vessels in America's Flying Aircraft Carriers.
The 785-foot USS Macon, a U.S. Navy "dirigible," and its four Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk aircraft were lost on February 12, 1935, during severe weather offshore of Point Sur, Calif., on a routine flight from the Channel Islands to its home base at Moffett Field. The wreckage of the USS Macon provides an opportunity to study the relatively undisturbed archaeological remnants of a unique period of U.S. aviation history.
I've written on these unique vessels in America's Flying Aircraft Carriers.
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