This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 27-April-2015
Subject: The USS Macon - A Piece of Local History
Description: Jeff's presentation for the month of April was a documentary of sorts about the airship USS Macon - its history, its design and construction, its service, and ultimately its loss in 1935 off the shore of Northern California near Monterey. The fallout of this loss was the death knell for rigid airship designs considered by the US Navy. Also mentioned were expeditions undertaken in 1991 and 2006 to view, photograph, and recover artifacts from the wreckage, among which were the remains of parasitic biplanes that had been carried aboard the Macon.
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