May 3.1923-Man's first non-stop transcontinental flight
May 3, 1923 (March 18) Guihai, man's first non-stop transcontinental flight.
1923, (on com) USAF Oakley Kelly and Macquarie Di Zhongyu today completed the first non-stop transcontinental flight. 0:26 they drive T-2 single-engine plane landed in San Diego, California. [History. The cn]
Kelly and McCready flying nearly 2,800 miles so far been non-stop distance flight, with an average speed of over 100 miles per hour, which is the second of the two pilots trying non-stop flying over the United States. In May, they began the flight from Long Island's Hempstead takeoff. Just a few minutes after the start of the flight, they encountered a major problem, the aircraft voltage regulator extinguished, but McCready controlled flight, Kelly replaced the instrument, they can continue flying.
This aircraft first flew down towards the Ohio Dayton the 22:15 over more Chicago, then transferred to the Southern Dynasties St. Louis flew. In the middle of the night over Kansas Acheson, 8:30 the next day across the New Mexico Shengluo Sha. Early in the afternoon, it appeared over in San Diego, all flute welcomed by the city's factories. Air Force Maj. Henry · H · Arnold Rockwell at the San Diego airport to welcome the two pilots, he was pleased, shouted: "The impossible happened. (TodayinHistory.cn) "
this record first from west to east transcontinental flight in 1912 was a sharp contrast to the Bob Fowler was 151 days, intermediate pause from Jacksonville flew to San Francisco. Carl Brace · P · Rogers with 49 days a year ago, made a from New York to Pasadena travel.
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