The USS Macon, of the Akron class, with its Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk aircraft. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons Today it may seem strange, but at the time airships were considered a good ...

(AP) History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison’s plaintive cry, “Oh ...

LAKEHURST, N.J. (AP) – History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison’s ...