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...regard to the future for lighter-than-air craft, Mr. Adams stated that it is unlikely as well as unwise that the navy will build more dirigibles until the "Macon" has been put under enough experiments to determine its worth. "There is much to be learned from experience with this ship. No one knows exactly how serious was the storm in which the 'Akron' met disaster...
...Angeles and the Akron, as he stepped into the control car of the Akron's sister ship in a red dawn two days later. His wife and daughter were looking on, 105 souls were aboard when Captain Dresel commanded, "Up ship!" and the brand-new U. S. S. Macon, her eight propellers swiveled downward, rose for her first flight...
...hours the Macon flew in the vicinity of her dock at Akron, then headed northwest to circle Cleveland. Clevelanders saw her shining fat stern disappear over Lake Erie. At sunset she was back at Akron where a smoke bomb and two green flares signaled her descent in the twilight...
Back in her hangar, the Macon was still the property of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. Not until she has flown 84 hours, of which she flew 13 more two days later, proven that she can make 80 m.p.h., can cruise 10,000 mi. will the Navy accept...
Meanwhile in Akron, Ohio, a record crowd of 25,000 in a single day flocked to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock to gape at the Macon, which was to be test-flown this week. It appeared certain that the Navy would accept and operate her. But Goodyear-Zeppelin had small hope of contracts for future ships for a long time to come...