The introduction of life jackets following the Akron disaster doubtless contributed. Ultimately, the Navy would not resurrect its large, rigid airship program. Although there was some enthusiasm ...

Despite the disasters, airship technology lives on ... The USS Macon was the second of the enormous Akron-class airship flying aircraft carriers. She served in the US Navy from 1933 to 1935 ...

The R38 airship crash was the first airship disaster after the First World War. The R38 had been commissioned during the war but was not built until after the war was over, when the Government's ...