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80-CF-4184-5: USS Macon (ZRS-5), early 1930s

80-CF-4184-5: USS Macon (ZRS-5), early 1930s. Somewhere in the vicinity of San Diego, California, one of Macon’s skyhook-equipped Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes is lowered out of her hangar for a milk run to the Naval Air Station on North Island. The N2Y’s were nicknamed the “running boats,” and their pilots the “Cox’sn” of the running boat. Here the D. Ward Harrigan-conceived “squadron” insignia of the “Men On the Flying Trapeze” can be seen on the N2Y’s fuselage. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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Caption: 80-CF-4184-5: USS Macon (ZRS-5), early 1930s. Somewhere in the vicinity of San Diego, California, one of Macon’s skyhook-equipped Consolidated N2Y-1 training planes is lowered out of her hangar for a milk run to the Naval Air Station on North Island. The N2Y’s were nicknamed the “running boats,” and their pilots the “Cox’sn” of the running boat. Here the D. Ward Harrigan-conceived “squadron” insignia of the “Men On the Flying Trapeze” can be seen on the N2Y’s fuselage. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
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