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Description: in 1978, Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman took off from Presque Isle, Maine in the gas balloon Double Eagle II in an attempt to cross the Atlantic. The successful crossing took 137 hours, 6 minutes and covered 5,021 kilometers (3,120 miles) landing in a wheat field near Miserey, France.
Title: DoubleEagleIIgondola
Credit: https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/august-11-1978-crossing-atlantic-balloon
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