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After 98 years in storage, a historic piece of U.S. aeronautica arrived at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia. The lifeboat was used on two early attempted airship crossings of the Atlantic.

In the Museum: Dangerous Crossing

November 2010 | By Tom D. Crouch

Viewport: See the World

November 2009 | By J.R. Dailey

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