The Akron class remains the only class of aircraft carrier airship in history. They were in service with the US Navy for a very short time, and if the concept was very much in the line of “Popular Science” concepts, it was still quite serious. Alongside the 100+ aircraft carriers delivered by US shipyards from USS Langley to USS Gerald Ford, they were, and remains, the only flying ones, with a significant impact on the popular culture to this day. However for the US Navy, apart for the experimental value and wow factor, they were -almost- a fiasco. Why it was so ?.
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