Comments on: Lifeboat from airships “America” and “Akron” donated to the Smithsonian http://smithsonianscience.org/2010/06/first-red-panda-cub-born-at-the-national-zoo-in-15-years/ News about the Smithsonian’s research in the fields of anthropology, astrophysics, conservation biology, geology, materials science, paleontology, zoology, and global climate change. Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: The Guild of Scientific Troubadours » Science Art: Wellman’s Airship America (aviation anniversary tribute 1) http://smithsonianscience.org/2010/06/first-red-panda-cub-born-at-the-national-zoo-in-15-years/#comment-10504 Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:40:57 +0000 http://smithsonianscience.org/?p=5713#comment-10504 […] They had to abandon the Airship America when both of its engines failed. After drifting for 33 hours about 1,000 miles from Atlantic City, they bundled onto a lifeboat near Bermuda and returned home aboard the Royal Mail Steamship Trent. They’d already made history – a transmission from their Marconi rig was the first radio signal sent from the air to the land. And once back in New York City, they were lauded as heroes with a ticker-tape parade and a banquet. Their lifeboat later wound up aboard the Akron, an accident-prone flying aircraft carrier. That lifeboat (and a keen photograph of Vaniman and Kiddo) are on display at the Smithsonian. […]

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With the airship craze in full swing, Wellman had also managed to persuade three newspapers – The Daily Telegraph and The New York Times among them – to finance the daring expedition.One member of the America’s crew was especially excited. Mu……

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