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This is a view of USS Macon, ZRS-5, a US Navy dirigible commissioned in the mid-1930's along with her sister ship USS Akron, ZRS-4. Each was lost at sea following two or three years' service. Nearly 800 ft long, Macon flew numerous operational patrols over the ocean, launching and retrieving her four Curtis F9C-2 Sparrow Hawk biplanes, and staying aloft far longer than conventional patrol planes could. Up to five Sparrow Hawks could be stored in Macon's internal hangar. My painting was inspired by several official US Navy photographs now in the public domain, and depicts one plane on the trapeze and three more waiting their turn to hook on and be hoisted aboard.

Having been introduced to landscapes and seascapes by his artist mother, and with influence from his wife with a background in graphic arts, Vic Delnore has developed his own interpretations of landscapes, abstracts, and artistic scenes in graphite, pen and ink, oil, water media, and charcoal. His initial art training was in composition and perspective in The Hague, The Netherlands, followed by instruction in story illustration, pen-and-ink graphics at RPI, figure drawing and calligraphy at MIT/Harvard and ODU, and under nationally known instructors in watercolor and related media. He has exhibited in galleries on Florida, Cape Cod, the Outer Banks, and Hampton Roads since the sixties. Vic holds membership in the Lee County...