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 ...

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

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

The U.S. has the world's largest carrier fleet with 11 in service, while China ranks second with three and Japan has two ...