Photo #: NH 77437
USS Macon (ZRS-5)
Two of the airship's Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighters
attached to her trapeze (left) and perch, during flight operations
near Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, 12 October
1934.
This image is a frame from a motion picture film, taken from
an airplane flying alongside Macon.
The planes' pilots were Lieutenant Harold B. Miller (plane on
the trapeze) and Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Frederick N. Kivette
(plane on the perch).
Both planes have their wheel landing gear removed, as was generally
the practice when they operated from Macon after 19 July
1934.
Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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