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Aaron give me a opportunity to made a great USS Macron a unique dirigible of US Navy, and with you Brother USS Akron the only operational Flying Carrier in history. Carring five Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk fighters development for use in this airships.





The building of ZRS-5 started in 1933, at this time Macron is bigest rigid airship in the World, used by Navy for recon, and scouting. Macron have some unique features like a internal hangar bay and recon pod basquet, for recon duties this pod like a small ballon is suspend from mother. Was an artifice to conceal the Airship above the clouds and download the pod just below them.







The Macron lost in 1935 in a storm in cost of California, debris found in 1996 with amazing conservation in ocean floor.

Ocean expedition explores submerged wreck of historic naval airship USS Macon in NOAA Monterey Bay Sanctuary - Images from the 2006 expedition

Murphs Model made a bigest model in 1/388 of classic Airship. The model is amazing an easy to build, the small parts are a challenge but is buidable with carefull.

I started the build from small parts: the two Curtiss Sparrowhawk...











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