✈️ THE AIRSHIP THAT DARED THE OCEAN
October 15
On this day in 1910, the airship America lifted off from Hoboken, New Jersey, in humanity's first attempt to cross the Atlantic by powered aircraft. Four explorers crammed into an open wicker gondola, nursing a kerosene stove and a leaking hydrogen envelope as they vanished into the haze east of Newfoundland — never to be seen again. Storms, ice and dwindling fuel haunted their drift toward Virginia; the crew survived only by parachuting from the sinking ship far out at sea, while the great silver cigar slipped beneath the waves. The ocean kept the airship, but the dream of crossing it by air had been born.
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