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Part 11
Part 11 of Wonders of World Aviation was published on Tuesday 17th May 1938, price 7d.
This part included a colour plate showing the United States airship “Macon” being moored to the mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey. It formed part of the article on The Mooring of Airships.
The plate also formed the cover design for this part.
The Cover
The subject of our cover picture this week ishows the United States airship “Macon” being moored to the mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
Contents of Part 11
New Guinea Gold
(Part 2)
Lighting the Modern Airport
Pioneers of Large Aircraft
Air Travel to the Continent
The Mooring of Airships
The US Airship “Macon” Being Moored
(colour plate)
The US Airship Macon Being Moored
THE U.S. AIRSHIP MACON being moored to the mobile mast at Lakehurst, New Jersey. The Macon was built in 1933 and had an overall length of 785 feet. Her diameter was 132.9 feet and capacity 6,500,000 cubic feet. Powered by eight Maybach engines having a total horse-power of 4,480, she had a complement of eighty-three and carried six fast fighting aeroplanes. The Macon was lost off the California coast in February 1935.
