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...Watching the dirigible Macon nose its way out of a cloud accompanied by two baby airplanes, hover overhead, drop a bundle of newspapers on the Houston, and head back for its Sunnyvale, Calif, base, 1,200 miles away...
...Commander Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, U. S. N. retired, aircraft designer (Shenandoah, NC-4), onetime chief of navy aircraft design, head of the department of mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime vice president of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. (Akron, Macon...
...take one or all of these strategic points: Ponce, San Juan, Culebra, St. Thomas. To an extent never before attempted, the fog of war enveloped the Caribbean. All communications were restricted, running lights extinguished. With Very rockets, destroyers torpedoed battleships. Battleships fired back with searchlights. Overhead the dirigible Macon droned along at 80 m.p.h. On the fifth and last day of the exercise, Admiral Reeves managed to land a strong detachment of marines at Culebra. The sea-soldiers went shouting up the bluffs, brandishing their bayonets, occupied the island and, temporarily at least, Admiral Reeves appeared to be in command...
Last month on her way across the U. S. from California to Florida the U. S. S. Macon got into rough air over Texas, broke two small girders, proceeded to Miami for repairs. Last week she set out to join the U. S. fleet in the Caribbean for maneuvers. Through a fog of military secrecy leaked news that not only had the Macon been "destroyed" by "enemy" aircraft, but also she had again suffered actual damage...
...Navy explained with considerable embarrassment that the damage consisted solely of a burned-out engine bearing, that the Macon could navigate if necessary on only two of her eight engines. More significant was the Navy's explanation of the Maeon's "destruction." Given a scouting mission to locate an "enemy" aircraft-carrier, she had died a heroine while spotting the Grey Fleet for the Blue Fleet's gunmen. After her "destruction" she became "a new ship" ("ZRS-6"), spotted everything in sight on another scouting mission...