Lifeboat ***** The Air -- Pictures taken ***** Solent during a demonstration of the ***** airborne lifeboat 17ft. 9ins. long, when it ***** by parachute to an air crew who were ***** to have been force landed in the sea. The lifeboat, self-righting and self-baling is equipped with sails and an outboard engine which gives a range of 120 miles at knots. It contains special water purifying units, first air equipment, rations, and cigarettes. A Naval "Barracuda" carrying the lifeboat before the drop