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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77436

USS Macon (ZRS-5)


Two of the airship's Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighters practice a simultaneous drop from her trapeze and perch, during flight operations near Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, probably circa 12 October 1934.
This image is a frame from a motion picture film, taken from Macon's lower fin, looking forward.

Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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1 October 2002