Summary and Key Points You Need to Know: In the 1930s, the U.S. Navy experimented with “flying aircraft carriers” in the form of rigid airships USS Akron and USS Macon. These ...

The U.S. did eventually end up with two airships built by Germany, USS Shenandoah and Los ... Today, the flying aircraft carriers Akron and Macon are a little known chapter in naval aviation ...