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...flagship Pennsylvania, the light cruisers Memphis, Richmond, Concord, Cincinnati swung up into position, dropped lifeboats. Within an hour 81 officers and crew had been safely bundled aboard the rescue ships. But long before the last survivor had been picked up all that was left of the $4,000,000 Macon, its chief radio operator and a Filipino mess boy had been swallowed up by the Pacific off Point...
...great Goodyear-Zeppelin airship dock at Akron, Ohio. A high-school band blaring "Dixie." Lines of shivering spectators on the cold concrete. Mrs. William Adger Moffett on the arm of her husband, Rear Admiral Moffett, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. Eight pretty girls from Macon, Ga. The huge silver bow of the ZRS-5-. . . Mrs. Moffett mounted a bunting-draped platform, pulled a red-white-&-blue cord. Two hatches in the airship's nose flopped open and out flew 48 startled pigeons. Cried Mrs. Moffett: "I christen thee Macon!"* Mighty cheers for the third dirigible...
...Macon made her maiden flight in April 1933. Since the Los Angeles had been decommissioned year before, she became the only U. S. dirigible left in Naval service. Last spring in flying from California to Florida she broke two small girders in rough air over Texas (TIME, May 21). Even so, her builders and operators pooh-poohed the idea that there was anything structurally wrong with...
Though all but two members of the Macon's crew survived the disaster, public opinion turned strongly, swiftly against further experimentation with this type of aircraft. President Roosevelt summed it up when he announced that the U. S. would hereafter leave the development of dirigibles to Germany. Instead of replacing the Macon, he would put the same money into 50 long-range scouting planes. Utterly blasted was the long-cherished hope of raising U. S. capital, of winning U. S. public confidence for U. S. dirigibles in commercial service...
Singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here," the survivors of the Macon were landed at San Francisco. A Naval court of inquiry to determine the cause of the accident was convened aboard the U.S.S. Tennessee in the harbor. Three days after the crash "Doc" Wiley got something he had long been waiting for: an order from Washington promoting him from the rank of Lieutenant Commander to that of Commander...