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USS Macon (ZRS-5)
USS ''Macon'' (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a "flying aircraft carrier", designed to carry biplane parasite aircraft, five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk for scouting or two-seat Fleet N2Y-1 for training. In service for less than two years, in 1935 ''Macon'' was damaged in a storm and lost off California's Big Sur coast, though most of the crew were saved. The wreckage is listed as USS ''Macon'' Airship Remains on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Less than shorter than ''Hindenburg'', both the ''Macon'' and "sister ship" USS ''Akron'' (ZRS-4) were among the largest flying objects in the world in terms of length and volume. Although the hydrogen-filled ''Hindenburg'' was longer, the two sisters still hold the world record for helium-filled airships.
== Construction ==
USS ''Macon'' was built at the Goodyear Airdock in Springfield Township, Ohio by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation. Because this was by far the biggest airship ever to be built in America, a team of experienced German airship engineers—led by Chief Designer Karl Arnstein—instructed and supported design and construction of both U.S. Navy airships ''Akron'' and ''Macon''.
''Macon'' had a structured duraluminum hull with three interior keels. The airship was kept aloft by 12 helium-filled gas cells made from gelatin-latex fabric. Inside the hull, the ship had eight German-made Maybach 12-cylinder, gasoline-powered engines that drove outside propellers.〔 The propellers could be rotated down or backwards, providing an early form of thrust vectoring to control the ship during takeoff and landings. The rows of slots in the hull above each engine were part of a system to condense out the water vapor from the engine exhaust gases for use as buoyancy compensation ballast to compensate for the loss of weight as fuel was consumed.
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