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The plan for the flight was conceived by the Air Service's Assistant Chief, Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell in 1923. The Air Service since 1919 had been regularly establishing endurance, distance, altitude and speed records in airplanes to promote favorable publicity and public support for the funding of the U.S. Army War Department's Major Project Number 4, the Lassiter plan for the expansion of ...
On the first leg of the "Transcontinental Air Race of 1919" which saw 33 planes cross the U.S. with 8 completing the round-trip (out of 67 which began the trip). Nine deaths occurred during what was officially the U.S. Army's "Transcontinental Reliability and Endurance Test" 1922: September 4: 21 hours, 19 minutes: East to West: Jimmy Doolittle ...
On May 26, 1934, it set a speed record for travel between Denver and Chicago when it made a 1,015.4-mile (1,633 km) non-stop "Dawn-to-Dusk" dash in 13 hours 5 minutes at an average speed of almost 78 mph (124 km/h). [5] For one section of the run it reached a speed of 112.5 mph (181 km/h).
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Contemporary photographic artist Uta Barth is photographed in front of her piece, titled "…from dawn to dusk. 2022," in her studio in Mar Vista. (Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times)
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Dawn to Dusk may refer to: Dawn to Dusk, the first disc of the album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins "Dawn to Dusk", a song from the Raga soundtrack; Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States, an aviation record established in 1924
The IndyCar Series concludes its 2024 season at Nashville Superspeedway, racing 206 laps on the 1.33-mile D-shaped oval that features 14-degree banking.. Alex Palou is 33 points clear of Will ...