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USS Akron (ZRS-4) was a helium-filled rigid airship of the U.S. Navy, the lead ship of her class, which operated between September 1931 and April 1933.It was the world's first purpose-built flying aircraft carrier, carrying F9C Sparrowhawk fighter planes, which could be launched and recovered while it was in flight.
Each Akron class ship was built with four individual hangar bays; a fifth aircraft could be stored on the trapeze. In the USS Akron, however, structural girders obstructed the two rearmost hangars, meaning it was capable of accommodating no more than three aircraft when first commissioned. Plans were in place to modify the supports, but the ...
The Joint Committee to Investigate Dirigible Disasters was created by House Concurrent Resolution 15, 73rd Congress, to investigate the cause of the Akron disaster and the wrecks of other Army and Navy dirigibles and to determine responsibility. The committee was also directed to inquire generally into the question of the utility of dirigibles ...
USS Akron crashes at sea off the coast of New Jersey in severe storm. With 73 dead - many drowned - and 3 survivors, this remains the deadliest airship accident. [20] 73 3 4 April 1933 United States Navy airship J-3 A-7382 crashes at sea off New Jersey coast with two crew killed while looking for USS Akron survivors. [20] 2 16 August 1934
[9] However, after the loss of the USS Akron in 1933 and the USS Macon in 1935, military use of helium declined significantly. A lease agreement was reached in 1936 with the Goodyear–Zeppelin Corporation , providing helium for commercial aviation, and in 1937 Congress amended the Helium Act to allow for sale of helium produced in excess of U ...
April 3, USS Akron was caught in a severe storm and flown into the surface of the sea off the shore of New Jersey. It carried no life boats and few life vests, so 73 of its crew of 76 died from drowning or hypothermia. US Navy Zeppelin USS Macon (ZRS-5) over Moffett Field in 1933. April 21, the USS Macon is launched.
More than 2,500 miles away from Akron in Silicon Valley, what engineers say is the world's largest airship took flight for the first time. This massive snow-white zeppelin-like ship is slated to ...
Their decline was accelerated by a series of high-profile accidents, including the 1930 crash and burning of the British R101 in France, the 1933 and 1935 storm-related crashes of the twin airborne aircraft carrier U.S. Navy helium-filled rigids, the USS Akron and USS Macon respectively, and the 1937 burning of the German hydrogen-filled ...