Talk:USS Macon (ZRS-5)

Photos
Update: New photos posted at LiveScie nce, September 28th. http://www.livescience.com/history/060928_airship_wreck.html --ElfWord 22:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I have a poster that was my father's. It's of the USS Macon over Manhattan. It's in perfect condition and I am trying to see how to find a collector, or if a museum is interested in it. Can I please get some information on how to proceed. 73.207.40.190 (talk) 17:16, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

A currently ongoing exploration of the airship Macon can be viewed at http://montereybay.noaa.gov/research/macon/feed.html or at http://www.oceanslive.org/portal/.

Hello! I find it strange that none of the airplanes where ordered to inspect the initial damage 4pm local time and 1200kilo times 5 for the planes is also a considerate weight which could have delayed the crash, took several hours inbetween the crash and first inital damage. Well, hindsight is 20/20. RGDS Alexmcfire

Some effort was made to jettison the planes, but they could not be freed; perhaps they were jammed by the large angle of hull inclination. I agree it's hard to believe they couldn't have been freed with axes. There were a number of missed opportunities to save the ship. For example, the two after engines (out of 8) weighed 2300 kg between them and would have supplied a strong righting moment if hacked free with axes and allowed to tear free from the ship. fnj2, 06:32, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

How big were they?
They were so big...but were they "largest"? Longest, greatest volume, greatest lift? Some clarification would be welcome. TREKphiler  hit me ♠  19:26, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Female beeing
I'm not english mother tongue. Is there an objective reason for the vehicle to be referred with the feminine pronoun, or is it a writer's personal preference to attribute sex to things? Also, I noticed this attitude with other "big and massive" military equipment too. Medende (talk) 03:03, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It's customary to refer to ships (and airships) with the feminine pronoun. 72.224.172.14 (talk) 13:03, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

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Acquisition cost
Since quite a few of the pages for US Navy vessels list an acquisition cost:

"Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation signed a contract with the Navy for the two airships to be delivered in thirty months and cost $5,375,000 and ZRS-5 was to be delivered fifteen months after the first for a cost of $2,450,000."

http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/macon/macon-factsheet.pdf (redirects to a page hosed at windows.net)

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