Word: flights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenants John A. Macready and Oakley Kelly finished the first cross-continental non-stop flight in the history of aviation, landing at Rockwell Field, San Diego, after flying 26 hours and 50 minutes and covering approximately 2,600 miles from their point of departure at Roosevelt Field, Long Island...
...April 30 the first airplane left London on the London-Berlin-Moscow air line. The through flight from London to Berlin costs $30-or four cents a mile. From Berlin the trip is continued by night train and day flying and the passenger reaches the once inaccessible Moscow in 36 hours...
Lieutenants Kelly and Macready, who made the first non-stop airplane flight across the United States, are enrolled in that "Legion", although their membership is nowhere to be soon on a roster. They are proving their right to the places their spirit had chosen for them alongside Vasco de Gama, Stanley, Perry and all pioneers...
These men who had already remained in the air louger than any other aviator, on this flight were again "breaking the road for the rest." They traveled for twenty-seven hours, covering a distance farther by almost a thousand miles than any one else has attempted in one flight. The speed of 110 miles an hour which they were forced to maintain put a strain on the motor which accmed suicidal. And it was necessary to travel through darkness, high above the clouds where charts both of land and of air were almost useless. In these strange air lanes they...
...pioneer is pursued so closely by commerce, even in the air, that his type seems in danger of extinction. But there is much yet to do. Around-the-world trips are already planned, the speed of flight will be increased, and most important, the machines in time will be operated automatically by power waves sent from operating stations all over the country. The legions of pioneers need not yet go into barracks, nor need they reach out to Mars to find routes still uncharted...