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Dumont flies his airship around the Eiffel Tower

Alberto Santos Dumont's No. 6 airship rounds the Eiffel Tower to win the Deutsch Prize, 1901. [larger image ]

Credits - © 2002 Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Neg. No. 83-3941


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