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2. Transcontinental flight - Wikipedia

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   1929 – The Buhl Airsedan "Spokane Sun-God" was the first aircraft to make a non-stop US transcontinental round-trip flight on August 15, 1929 (Nick Mamer and Art Walker flew it from Spokane, Washington, to New York City and back between August 15 and 21, 1929, taking 120 hours 1 minute 40 seconds). [7]

3. Robert G. Fowler - Wikipedia

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   After becoming the first person to traverse the United States from the West Coast to the East Coast, Fowler became the first person to make a nonstop transcontinental flight by traversing the Isthmus of Panama in an hour and thirty-five minutes on 27 April 1913.

4. Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States

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   His actual flight time was 18 hours and 20 minutes, at an average groundspeed of 156 mph (251 km/h). In addition to the publicity value of being the first transcontinental crossing within the hours of daylight, the flight established new records for time, distance, and average speed (128.37 mph) in transcontinental flights.

5. Pilot Robert Fowler's transcontinental flight for $50,000 ...

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   In Oct. 1910, publisher William Randolph Hearst announced a $50,000 prize for a U.S. transcontinental flight in thirty days or less.

6. List of firsts in aviation - Wikipedia

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   First piloted non-stop solar-powered transatlantic flight: Bertrand Piccard flew from New York City to Seville in the Solar Impulse 2 between June 20–23, 2016. [ 262 ] First circumnavigation of the world by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power : Solar Impulse 2 between March 2015 and July 2016; Borschberg and Piccard ...

7. 1929 in aviation - Wikipedia

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   With Oscar Grubb aboard as flight engineer, Frank Hawks sets a transcontinental airspeed record for a flight across the continental United States while ferrying the Lockheed Air Express (registration NR7955) from the Lockheed factory in Burbank, California, to an air show in New York City, making the flight in 18 hours 21 minutes. [5] [6]