Thursday, September 28, 2006

New Photos Reveal 1935 Airship at Bottom of Pacific Ocean

On Feb. 12, 1935, during severe weather off Point Sur, Calif., a U.S. Navy flying machine called the USS Macon fell from the sky, plunged into the Pacific Ocean, and sank. It was the nation's largest rigid, lighter-than-air craft, and the last of its kind. This month researchers documented the wreckage of the 785-foot dirigible.

You can read more about it here.

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