The USS Macon crash brought a quick end to the U.S. Navy’s vision of “flying aircraft carriers” powered by helium gas ...

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What You Need to Know: The Akron-class airships, Akron and Macon, represented the pinnacle of rigid airship design and were the U.S. Navy’s only flying aircraft carriers. Built by Goodyear ...

For just about two years, the USS Macon served as a futuristic aircraft carrier. The Navy believed that the airship could aid in scouting—flying ahead of a fleet to identify an enemy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WAVY) — President Biden announced Monday that the next two future Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers would be named after former presidents Bill Clinton and ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

The Navy Air Boss on Jan. 28 confirmed the first MQ-25A Stingray aircraft carrier-based unmanned tanker aircraft will start ...

Ford. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the future carriers Clinton and Bush will "serve as lasting tributes to each leader’s legacy in service of the United States." "Aircraft ...