America's Airships: The Navy's Giant Dirigibles

Shenandoah, Los Angeles, Akron and Macon — the US Navy's rigid-airship program, the flying aircraft carriers with biplanes in their bellies, and the storms and crashes that ended it.

Playlist by @age_of_airships

18 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. What Killed Flying Aircraft Carriers? — Not What You Think
  2. Worse Than the Hindenburg: The Crash of the USS Akron | Fascinating Horror — Fascinating Horror
  3. The first American-built rigid airship, USS Shenandoah — The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
  4. Forgotten Airship: USS Macon — The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
  5. History's Most Devastating Airship Disasters — Oceanliner Designs
  6. 5 Dramatic Airship Accidents You've Never Heard Of — Oceanliner Designs
  7. The Flying Carriers(Part 1) — Francisco Carvallo
  8. USS Macon: Construction & First Flight (1) — Francisco Carvallo
  9. USS Macon (ZRS-5) Crash (1935) — AIRBOYD
  10. America's Most Successful Rigid Airship — zrsthemovie.com
  11. U.S. NAVY DIRIGIBLE USS AKRON MEMORIAL FILM AFTER 1933 LOSS OF AIRSHIP 59614 — PeriscopeFilm
  12. 1929 U.S. Navy Blimp USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) (full) — WWIIPublicDomain
  13. The Underwater Crash Site of USS Macon — Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
  14. Underwater Robots are Used to Recover a Sunken Airship from 1935 | Smithsonian Channel — Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation
  15. Airship R - 80 And Roma (1922) — British Pathé
  16. The Airship Roma Disaster — Military Aviation Museum
  17. The process of constructing the USS Los Angeles rigid airship by Zeppelin company...HD Stock Footage — CriticalPast
  18. Airship USS Los Angeles moored to the mast of USS Patoka in Newport, Rhode Island...HD Stock Footage — CriticalPast