Aerial Bootleggers
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Free, Parking $15
Presenter: Roger Connor
Throughout Prohibition, bootleggers used nearly every viable mode of transportation to move alcohol into the United States, and airplanes were no exception. Join curator Roger Connor as he discusses how, during Prohibition, smuggling of liquor by airplane constituted one of the largest commercial aviation activities in the United States and contributed to the establishment of elaborate aeronautical smuggling rings for the importation of narcotics and undocumented immigrants.
Meet at the nose of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird in the Boeing Aviation Hangar.
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