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American Airships

  • Airship: DJ's Zeppelin Page
    Scroll down to U.S. Navy Rigid Airships. On this highly professional website, there is a page each for the USS Shenandoah and the USS Los Angles and there is a combined page for the USS Akron and USS Macon.
    http://www.airships.net/

  • Aviation History Online Museum
    This is an extract from Modern Aircraft by Victor W. Page, published in 1927. It compares American Airships to German Airships and has some very interesting photographs.
    http://www.aviation-history.com/theory/airship/airship.htm

  • Bluejean's Place
    This is a collection of five colour photographs from visits to the various USS Shenandoah memorials in Ohio.
    http://www.bluejeansplace.com/USSShenandoahMemorial.html

  • David and Liz's Homepage
    This is a well illustrated report about the crash of the USS Macon. It includes a map of the last flight and the Macon air wing badge. It is written from a war gamers' perspective.
    http://www.btinternet.com/~david.manley/naval/genquar/airships.htm

  • Don Skiff's Home Page
    A collection of eleven photographs of the wreckage of the USS Shenandoah which crashed in 1925.
    http://www.donskiff.com/wreck_of_the_shenandoah.htm

  • George's World
    This collection includes four photographs of the USS Los Angeles at Lakehurst, New Jersey and another twelve of the USS Shenandoah in and around St Louis, Missouri.
    http://www.letgeorgedoit.com/airship_photos.htm

  • LA-ex.org
    The current USS Los Angeles is a nuclear powered submarine but the second was the ZR-3 rigid Airship. Scroll down to Related Information for photos, postcards and postal covers. It was built in Germany for the United States Navy.
    http://www.la-ex.org/View_Photos/1974_Christening/Ancestors/ancestors.html

  • Lighter-Than-Air Association
    This is the website for The Lighter-Than-Air Society and the Akron Airship Historical Centre. The Society was established to study all forms of Lighter-than-air aviation and not just Airships.
    http://www.blimpinfo.com/

  • Lucidcafé
    This is a link to a relatively brief but well illustrated article about the USS Macon. One of the photographs is of the ship and the crew of one hundred.
    http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/macon.html

  • Moffett Field History Society
    Moffett Field was the home base for the USS Macon and this society was formed to operate the museum. Click on the Image Gallery link to view almost one hundred photographs of the USS Macon during construction and the interior. Moffett Field is currently used by Airship Ventures as the home base for their Zeppelin NT.
    http://www.moffettfieldmuseum.org/

  • NASA Technical Reports Server
    The NASA technical reports server includes reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915-1958) and the National Air and Space Administration (1958-Current).
    http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp

  • National Park Service
    Aviation: From Sand Dunes To Sonic Booms is a list of aviation-related historic places sorted by chronology and theme. There is a brief article about each historic places. And there is also driving instructions and information on if and when each place is open to the public.
    http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/aviation/sitelist.htm

  • National Underwater and Marine Agency
    Click on Expeditions and then on USS Akron. This is a report about their search for the wreck of the USS Akron in 1986. This article does not have any photographs. This organisation was founded by the author Clive Cussler.
    http://www.numa.net/expeditions/akron.html

  • Navy Lakehurst Historical Society
    This is the official website of the Navy Lakehurst Historical Society. Lakehurst, New Jersey was where the Hindenburg disaster occurred. It features a large amount of information about various American airships, including the USS Akron, USS Los Angeles and the USS Shenandoah. It also includes information about The Hindenburg and various Airship hangers.
    http://www.nlhs.com/

  • Noble County, Ohio
    Noble County, Ohio is where the USS Shenandoah crashed. This five page article includes eight photographs, a crew list and the Airships' specifications. The fifth page includes photographs of stunned onlookers milling around the wreckage.
    http://www.noblecountyohio.com/shenandoah.html

  • Spiegel Online
    This is an article about the USS Macon and the search for her wreck off Point Sur, California. It includes two galleries with a total of twenty photographs, including some of the wreck itself.
    http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,441035,00.html

  • Zeppelin Library Archive
    Click on Great Zeppelins. The Great Zeppelins features individual pages for the German built USS Los Angeles, the American built USS Shenandoah and a combined page for the USS Akron and the USS Macon. All pages includes photographs and specifications.
    http://www.ciderpresspottery.com/ZLA.html


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