This Day in Aviation History

Not much to share today. I am going to let Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum stand in for me today.

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Today in 1978: Balloonists Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman departed in “Double Eagle II” on the first balloon flight across Atlantic Ocean. See the gondola on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA: http://bit.ly/1mAjPqw