The USS Akron and USS Macon were “rigid airships” that served the U.S. Navy. Construction started in 1929. With a three-keel design, the Akron-class dirigibles had a better framework than the ...
the USS Macon) were filled with helium. The USS Akron met the same fate that befell so many other rigid airships and was lost in a thunderstorm (off the coast of New Jersey in 1933). This was the ...