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Hearst offered a $US50,000 prize to the first aviator to fly coast to coast, in either direction, in less than 30 days from start to finish. Previous attempts by <a href="/wiki/James_J._Ward" title="James J. Ward">James J. Ward</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Atwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Atwood">Henry Atwood</a> had been unsuccessful.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rodgers persuaded <a href="/wiki/J._Ogden_Armour" title="J. Ogden Armour">J. Ogden Armour</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Armour_and_Company" title="Armour and Company">Armour and Company</a>, to sponsor the flight, and in return he named the plane after Armour's grape soft drink "Vin Fiz". Rodgers left from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17, 1911, at 4:30 pm, carrying the first transcontinental mail pouch. He crossed the Rocky Mountains on November 5, 1911, and landed at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, at 4:04 pm, in front of a crowd of 20,000 people. He had missed the prize deadline by 19 days. He was accompanied on the ground by a support crew that repaired and rebuilt the plane after each crash landing. The trip required 70 stops. </p><p>On December 10, 1911, Rodgers flew to Long Beach, California, and symbolically taxied his plane into the Pacific Ocean. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Timeline_of_early_transcontinental_flights">Timeline of early transcontinental flights</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Transcontinental_flight&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Timeline of early transcontinental flights"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1911 – <a href="/wiki/James_J._Ward" title="James J. Ward">James J. Ward</a>, failed attempt.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1911 – <a href="/wiki/Henry_Atwood" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry Atwood">Henry Atwood</a>, failed attempt.</li> <li>1911 – <a href="/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers" title="Calbraith Perry Rodgers">Calbraith Perry Rodgers</a> – Start: September 17, 1911, at 4:30 pm; finish: November 5, 1911.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pattillo_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pattillo-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1912 - <a href="/wiki/Robert_George_Fowler" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert George Fowler">Robert George Fowler</a> - Start: September 11, 1911; finish: February 8, 1912.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>1923 - First non-stop flight from <a href="/wiki/Long_Island,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Long Island, New York">Long Island, New York</a> to <a href="/wiki/Rockwell_Field" title="Rockwell Field">Rockwell Field</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a> by <a href="/wiki/John_A._Macready" title="John A. Macready">Lt. John Macready</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oakley_G._Kelly" title="Oakley G. Kelly">Lt. Oakley Kelly</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Fokker_F.IV" title="Fokker F.IV">Fokker T-2</a><sup id="cite_ref-NASM_Fokker_T-2_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASM_Fokker_T-2-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1929 – The <a href="/wiki/Buhl_Airsedan" title="Buhl Airsedan">Buhl Airsedan</a> "Spokane Sun-God" was the first aircraft to make a non-stop US transcontinental round-trip flight on August 15, 1929 (<a href="/wiki/Nick_Mamer" title="Nick Mamer">Nick Mamer</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Art_Walker_(aviator)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Art Walker (aviator) (page does not exist)">Art Walker</a> flew it from Spokane, Washington, to New York City and back between August 15 and 21, 1929, taking 120 hours 1 minute 40 seconds).<sup id="cite_ref-Aerofiles_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aerofiles-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1930 – <a href="/wiki/Frank_Hawks#Record_breaking_flights" title="Frank Hawks">Frank Hawks</a> flew from San Diego to New York in a towed <a href="/wiki/Glider_(aircraft)" title="Glider (aircraft)">glider</a> leaving San Diego March 30, 1930, and arriving in New York eight days later.<sup id="cite_ref-PM_1930_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM_1930-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1932 – First scheduled cross-country through passenger flights (no change of plane).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1933 – Transcontinental passenger flights in as little as 20 hours on the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_247" title="Boeing 247">Boeing 247</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Boeing_2003_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boeing_2003-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1934 – First three-stop airline flights (TWA DC-2s).</li> <li>1946 – First one-stop airline flights (United DC-4s and <a href="/wiki/TWA" class="mw-redirect" title="TWA">TWA</a> <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Constellation" title="Lockheed Constellation">Constellations</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1953 - First sustained nonstop airline flights (TWA may have flown some LA-NY nonstops in 1947).</li> <li>1957 - First transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed. <a href="/wiki/John_Glenn" title="John Glenn">John Glenn</a> flew from <a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Los_Alamitos" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval Air Station Los Alamitos">Naval Air Station Los Alamitos</a>, California to <a href="/wiki/Floyd_Bennett_Field" title="Floyd Bennett Field">Floyd Bennett Field</a>, New York in 3 hours and 23 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-NASA_JG_Bio_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NASA_JG_Bio-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transcontinental_air_speed_record">Transcontinental air speed record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Transcontinental_flight&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Transcontinental air speed record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In-flight and on-ground time are counted after the earliest flights </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transcontinental_flight&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">August 2008</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Date </th> <th>Time </th> <th>Direction </th> <th>Pilot </th> <th>Aircraft </th> <th>Notes and reference </th></tr> <tr> <td>1911</td> <td>September 17</td> <td>3 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes</td> <td>East to West</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers" title="Calbraith Perry Rodgers">Calbraith Perry Rodgers</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vin_Fiz_Flyer" title="Vin Fiz Flyer">Vin Fiz Flyer</a></td> <td>The first transcontinental flight. It took fifty days (3 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes actual flying time). Rodgers made it in some seventy hops, flying a Wright biplane which was damaged and repaired so many times en route that nothing remained of the original machine at the finish but the drip pan and the vertical rudder. </td></tr> <tr> <td>1919</td> <td>October 11</td> <td>3 days, 3 hours, 5 minutes <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.newsobserver.com/543/story/267370.html">[1]</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged July 2018">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></td> <td>East to West</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belvin_W._Maynard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Belvin W. Maynard (page does not exist)">Belvin W. Maynard</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/DH-4" class="mw-redirect" title="DH-4">DH-4</a></td> <td>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" </td></tr> <tr> <td>1922</td> <td>September 4</td> <td>21 hours, 19 minutes</td> <td>East to West</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Doolittle" title="Jimmy Doolittle">Jimmy Doolittle</a></td> <td>DH-4</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Beach,_Florida" class="mw-redirect" title="Pablo Beach, Florida">Pablo Beach, Florida</a>, to San Diego, California, with only one refueling stop <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070208220946/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/doolittle/EX18.htm">[2]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1923</td> <td>May 2–3</td> <td>26 hours, 50 minutes, 38.4 seconds</td> <td>East to West</td> <td>Lt <a href="/wiki/John_A._Macready" title="John A. Macready">John A. Macready</a> and Lt <a href="/wiki/Oakley_G._Kelly" title="Oakley G. Kelly">Oakley G. Kelly</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fokker_F.IV" title="Fokker F.IV">Fokker T-2</a></td> <td>First nonstop transcontinental flight: Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Rockwell Field, North Island, San Diego. Longest straight-line distance covered nonstop until then<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1924</td> <td>June 23</td> <td>20 hours, 48 minutes</td> <td>East to West</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Russell_Maughan" title="Russell Maughan">Russell Maughan</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Curtiss_P-1_Hawk" title="Curtiss P-1 Hawk">Curtiss P-1 Hawk</a></td> <td>First transcontinental flight "<a href="/wiki/Dawn-to-dusk_transcontinental_flight_across_the_United_States" title="Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States">during hours of daylight</a>". New York City to San Francisco, average speed 128 miles per hour </td></tr> <tr> <td>1929</td> <td>February 4</td> <td>18 hours 22 minutes</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Hawks" title="Frank Hawks">Frank Hawks</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Air_Express" title="Lockheed Air Express">Lockheed Air Express</a></td> <td>Los Angeles Van Nuys to New York Roosevelt Field nonstop, 2481 miles, with mechanic/fueller Oscar Grubb </td></tr> <tr> <td>1929</td> <td>June 27</td> <td>19 hours, 10 minutes</td> <td>East to West</td> <td>Frank Hawks</td> <td>Lockheed Air Express<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources"><span title="The material near this tag may rely on an unreliable source. (February 2014)">unreliable source?</span></a></i>]</sup></td> <td>New York City to Los Angeles<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1929</td> <td>June 28</td> <td>17 hours, 36 minutes</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Frank Hawks</td> <td>Lockheed Air Express</td> <td>Los Angeles to New York City </td></tr> <tr> <td>1929</td> <td>August 15</td> <td>120 hr 1 min 40 sec<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>West to East and East to West</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nick_Mamer" title="Nick Mamer">Nick Mamer</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Art_Walker_(aviator)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Art Walker (aviator) (page does not exist)">Art Walker</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Buhl_Airsedan" title="Buhl Airsedan">Buhl Airsedan</a> "Spokane Sun-God"</td> <td>First non-stop transcontinental round-trip flight from Spokane, Washington to New York City and back </td></tr> <tr> <td>1930</td> <td>April 20</td> <td>14 hr 45 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Lindbergh" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles A. Lindbergh">Charles A. Lindbergh</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Model_8_Sirius" title="Lockheed Model 8 Sirius">Lockheed Sirius</a></td> <td>Los Angeles (Glendale) to New York Roosevelt Field, one stop<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1930</td> <td>May 27</td> <td>18 hr 43 min</td> <td>East to West</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roscoe_Turner" title="Roscoe Turner">Roscoe Turner</a></td> <td>Lockheed Air Express</td> <td>New York City to Los Angeles with 3 passengers.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1930</td> <td>Aug 13</td> <td>12 hr 25 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Frank Hawks</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Travel_Air_Type_R_Mystery_Ship" title="Travel Air Type R Mystery Ship">Travel Air "Mystery S"</a></td> <td>Los Angeles to New York City; three stops<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1931</td> <td>September 4</td> <td>11 hr 16 min 10 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Doolittle" title="Jimmy Doolittle">Jimmy Doolittle</a></td> <td>1931 <a href="/wiki/Laird_Super_Solution" title="Laird Super Solution">Laird Super Solution</a></td> <td>Burbank CA to Newark NJ, three stops <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Laird%20Super%20Solution%20Replica.asp">[3]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1932</td> <td>August 29</td> <td>10 hr 19 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jimmy_Haizlip&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jimmy Haizlip (page does not exist)">Jimmy Haizlip</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wedell-Williams_Model_44" title="Wedell-Williams Model 44">Wedell-Williams Model 44</a></td> <td>Burbank to New York Floyd Bennett; two stops. Completed after winning the 2nd annual Bendix Trophy race.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1932</td> <td>November 14</td> <td>12 hr 33 min</td> <td>East to West</td> <td>Roscoe Turner</td> <td>Wedell-Williams Model 44</td> <td>New York Floyd Bennett to Burbank, California; three stops<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1933</td> <td>July 1</td> <td>11 hr 30 min</td> <td>East to West</td> <td>Roscoe Turner</td> <td>Wedell-Williams Model 44</td> <td>New York Floyd Bennett to Burbank, California; four stops<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1933</td> <td>September 24–25</td> <td>10 hr 5 min 30 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Roscoe Turner</td> <td>Wedell-Williams Model 44</td> <td>Burbank, California to New York Floyd Bennett; two stops<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1936</td> <td>January 13</td> <td>9 hr 27 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Howard_Hughes" title="Howard Hughes">Howard Hughes</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Northrop_Gamma" title="Northrop Gamma">Northrop Gamma</a><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey. Hughes took off from Burbank, California, on January 13, 1936, en route to Newark, New Jersey, and a new cross-country record. He made the flight in 9 hours, 27 minutes, 10 seconds, and bettered Roscoe Turner's mark by 36 minutes. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061207022428/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Hughes/EX28.htm">[4]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1937</td> <td>January 19</td> <td>7 hr 28 min 25 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Howard Hughes</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hughes_H-1_Racer" title="Hughes H-1 Racer">Hughes H-1 Racer</a></td> <td>nonstop Burbank, California to overhead Newark Airport, NJ; 2445 miles </td></tr> <tr> <td>1939</td> <td>February 11</td> <td>7 hr ? min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_S._Kelsey" title="Benjamin S. Kelsey">Benjamin S. Kelsey</a></td> <td>X<a href="/wiki/P-38" class="mw-redirect" title="P-38">P-38</a><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>7 hr 43 min <a href="/wiki/March_Field" class="mw-redirect" title="March Field">March Field</a>, California to overhead <a href="/wiki/Mitchel_Field,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Mitchel Field, New York">Mitchel Field, New York</a> including 41 min on ground at Amarillo and Dayton </td></tr> <tr> <td>1945</td> <td>January 9</td> <td>6 hr 4 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Curtin_L._Reinhardt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Curtin L. Reinhardt (page does not exist)">Curtin L. Reinhardt</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/C-97_Stratofreighter" class="mw-redirect" title="C-97 Stratofreighter">C-97 Stratofreighter</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> to Washington, D.C., average speed 0 mph <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.lonestarflight.org/najeeb-elias-halaby">[5]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181025185942/https://www.lonestarflight.org/najeeb-elias-halaby">Archived</a> October 25, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1945</td> <td>May 1</td> <td>5 hr 40 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Najeeb_Halaby" title="Najeeb Halaby">Najeeb Halaby</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star" title="Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star">Lockheed YP-80 Shooting Star</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Muroc_AFB" class="mw-redirect" title="Muroc AFB">Muroc AFB</a> to <a href="/wiki/Patuxent_River_NAS" class="mw-redirect" title="Patuxent River NAS">Patuxent River NAS</a><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181025185942/https://www.lonestarflight.org/najeeb-elias-halaby">Archived</a> October 25, 2018, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1945</td> <td>December</td> <td>5 hr 17 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Glen_Edwards_(pilot)" title="Glen Edwards (pilot)">Glen Edwards</a> and Lt. Col. Henry E. Warden</td> <td><a href="/wiki/XB-42_Mixmaster" class="mw-redirect" title="XB-42 Mixmaster">XB-42 Mixmaster</a></td> <td>Captain Glen Edwards and Lt. Col. Henry E. Warden set a new transcontinental record flying the XB-42 from Long Beach, California to Bolling Field in Washington DC (2301 miles) in 5 hours 17 minutes, average 433.6 mph (697.8 km/h). </td></tr> <tr> <td>1945</td> <td>December</td> <td>5 hr 27 min 8 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Col C. S. Irvine</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Boeing_B-29_Superfortress" title="Boeing B-29 Superfortress">Boeing B-29</a></td> <td>Burbank, California to overhead Floyd Bennett Field, New York; average 450 miles/hour for 2459 miles </td></tr> <tr> <td>1946</td> <td>January 26</td> <td>4 hr 13 min 26 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Col W. H. Councill</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star" title="Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star">Lockheed P-80</a></td> <td>Long Beach, California to overhead La Guardia Airport, New York; 2460 miles nonstop, unrefuelled </td></tr> <tr> <td>1947</td> <td>September 3</td> <td>7 hr 00 min 04 sec</td> <td>East to West</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mantz" title="Paul Mantz">Paul Mantz</a></td> <td>North American P-51</td> <td>La Guardia Airport, NY to Burbank, California, 2459 miles </td></tr> <tr> <td>1949</td> <td>February 8</td> <td>3 hr 46 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td></td> <td><a href="/wiki/B-47_Stratojet" class="mw-redirect" title="B-47 Stratojet">B-47 Stratojet</a></td> <td>Larson AFB, Moses Lake, Washington to Andrews AFB near Washington DC, 607.8 mph average <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070203203000/http://www.boeing.com/history/chronology/chron07.html">[6]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1954</td> <td>January 2</td> <td>4 hr 8 min 5 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Col Willard Millikan</td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre" title="North American F-86 Sabre">North American F-86F</a></td> <td>Los Angeles LAX to overhead New York Floyd Bennett, 2468 miles; time includes fuel stop at Offutt AFB </td></tr> <tr> <td>1954</td> <td>March 30</td> <td>4 hr 24 min 17 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Joe DeBona</td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_American_P-51_Mustang" title="North American P-51 Mustang">North American P-51C</a></td> <td>Los Angeles LAX nonstop to New York Idlewild, 2474 miles – still the prop record (560 mph) </td></tr> <tr> <td>1954</td> <td>April 1</td> <td>3 hr 45 min 30 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>LtCdr Francis Brady</td> <td>Grumman F9F-7 Cougar</td> <td>San Diego North Island to New York Floyd Bennett, 2442 miles, nonstop, one refuelling </td></tr> <tr> <td>1955</td> <td>March 9</td> <td>3 hr 46 min 33.6 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Lt Col Robert Scott</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Republic_F-84_Thunderjet" title="Republic F-84 Thunderjet">Republic F-84F</a></td> <td>Los Angeles LAX to overhead New York Floyd Bennett, 2468 miles; two aerial refuellings </td></tr> <tr> <td>1955</td> <td>May 21</td> <td>5 hr 28 min</td> <td>East to West</td> <td>Lieut John Conroy</td> <td>North American F-86</td> <td>New York Mitchel Field to Los Angeles Van Nuys, 2481 miles, three stops </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957</td> <td>March 21</td> <td>5 hr 15 min</td> <td>East to West</td> <td>Cdr Dale Cox</td> <td>Douglas A3D</td> <td>nonstop unrefuelled New York Floyd Bennett to Los Angeles LAX </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957</td> <td>March 23</td> <td>3 hr 39 min 24 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td></td> <td>Douglas A3D</td> <td>Burbank CA to overhead Miami MCAS, FL </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957</td> <td>May 19</td> <td>3 hr 38 min</td> <td>West to East</td> <td></td> <td><a href="/wiki/North_American_F-100_Super_Sabre" title="North American F-100 Super Sabre">N American F-100F</a></td> <td>Palmdale CA to McGuire AFB, NJ </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957</td> <td>July 16</td> <td>3 hr 23 min 8.4 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Major <a href="/wiki/John_Glenn" title="John Glenn">John H. Glenn, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">USMC</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/F-8_Crusader" class="mw-redirect" title="F-8 Crusader">Vought F8U-1P Crusader</a></td> <td>"Project Bullet" non-stop from <a href="/wiki/Los_Alamitos_Army_Airfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Alamitos Army Airfield">NAS Los Alamitos, California</a> 2455 miles to Floyd Bennett Field, New York averaging <a href="/wiki/Mach_number" title="Mach number">Mach</a> 1.1, despite three <a href="/wiki/Aerial_refueling" title="Aerial refueling">refuelings</a> from AJ piston-engine tankers during which speed dropped below 300 mph. Glenn's on-board <a href="/wiki/Aerial_reconnaissance" title="Aerial reconnaissance">reconnaissance</a> camera recorded the first continuous <a href="/wiki/Panoramic_photography" title="Panoramic photography">panoramic photograph</a> of the United States. </td></tr> <tr> <td>1957</td> <td>November 27</td> <td>3 hr 5 min 39.2 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Lieutenant Gustav Klatt<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td><a href="/wiki/F-101_Voodoo" class="mw-redirect" title="F-101 Voodoo">F-101 Voodoo</a></td> <td>"Operation Sun Run", RF-101C refuelled four times by KC-135s; Ontario, California to overhead Floyd Bennett Field, New York, 781.7 mph <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070206050047/http://www.boeing.com/history/chronology/chron09.html">[7]</a><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/rf-101.htm">[8]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1961</td> <td>May 24</td> <td>2 hr 47 min 18 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/Richard_F._Gordon,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Richard F. Gordon, Jr.">Richard F. Gordon, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Navy">U.S. Navy</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-4_Phantom_II" title="McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II">McDonnell F4H</a></td> <td>Ontario, California to overhead Floyd Bennett Field, New York; three aerial refuellings from A3Ds </td></tr> <tr> <td>1962</td> <td>March 5</td> <td>2 hr 1 min 39 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Robert G. Sowers</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Convair_B-58_Hustler" title="Convair B-58 Hustler">Convair B-58</a></td> <td>overhead Los Angeles to overhead New York; one aerial refuelling </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990</td> <td>March 6</td> <td>1 hr 7 min 53.69 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Lt Col Ed Yeilding and Lt Col Joseph T. Vida</td> <td><a href="/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird" class="mw-redirect" title="SR-71 Blackbird">SR-71A Blackbird</a> <p>61-7972 </p> </td> <td>On delivery flight to the Smithsonian Institution, where the aircraft is now on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy center, this SR-71 set the current transcontinental record. Yeilding and Vida crossed the west coast near Ventura, CA and, 2,404.5 miles later, crossed the east coast near Salisbury, MD averaging 2,124.51 mph <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/records.php">[9]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003</td> <td>February 5</td> <td>2 hr 56 min 20 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Steve Fossett, Douglas Travis</td> <td>Cessna Citation X</td> <td>San Diego to Charleston SC, 2150 great-circle miles; fastest transcon flight by a subsonic aircraft </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003</td> <td>February 6</td> <td>3 hr 51 min 52 sec</td> <td>West to East</td> <td>Steve Fossett, Joseph Ritchie</td> <td>Piaggio Avanti</td> <td>San Diego to Charleston SC; fastest transcon flight by a turboprop </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003</td> <td>November 5</td> <td>3 hr 55 min 12 sec</td> <td>East to West</td> <td>Mike Bannister and Les Broadie</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Concorde" title="Concorde">Concorde</a> G-BOAG</td> <td>Flying to museum at retirement of the aircraft, New York to Seattle<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Junior_transcontinental_air_speed_record">Junior transcontinental air speed record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Transcontinental_flight&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Junior transcontinental air speed record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the junior record only in-flight time is counted at a certain speed </p> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Date </th> <th>Time </th> <th>Pilot </th> <th>Aircraft </th> <th>Notes and reference </th></tr> <tr> <td>1928</td> <td></td> <td></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard_James_(aviator)" title="Richard James (aviator)">Richard James (aviator)</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Travel_Air" title="Travel Air">Travel Air</a></td> <td>Previous "record" of 48 hours, set last year by 18-year-old Richard James, was spread over a month elapsed time.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930093542/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,752559,00.html">[10]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1930</td> <td>October 4, 1930</td> <td>East to West in 23 hours, 47 minutes</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Robert_Nietzel_Buck" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Nietzel Buck">Robert Nietzel Buck</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Pitcairn_Mailwing" title="Pitcairn Mailwing">Pitcairn PA-6 Mailwing</a></td> <td>On October 4, 1930, Robert beat the junior transcontinental air speed record of Eddie August Schneider in his PA-6 Pitcairn Mailwing he named "Yankee Clipper". His time was 23 hours, 47 minutes of elapsed flying time. Robert said on February 6, 2005: "I was the youngest to fly coast to coast and that record still stands. I had my license at 16 and after that, they raised the minimum age to 17. With that change, no one could break my record." </td></tr> <tr> <td>1930</td> <td>August 18, 1930</td> <td>East to West in 29 hours, 55 minutes</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Eddie_August_Schneider" title="Eddie August Schneider">Eddie August Schneider</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cessna" title="Cessna">Cessna</a></td> <td>Leaving from <a href="/wiki/Westfield,_New_Jersey" title="Westfield, New Jersey">Westfield, New Jersey</a> on August 14, 1930, to Los Angeles, California in 4 days with a combined flying time of 29 hours and 55 minutes. He lowered the East to West record by 4 hours and 22 minutes. He then made the return trip from Los Angeles to <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field,_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Roosevelt Field, New York">Roosevelt Field, New York</a> in 27 hours, 19 minutes, lowering the West to East record by 1 hour and 36 minutes. His total elapsed time for the round trip was 57 hours, 14 minutes. </td></tr> <tr> <td>1930</td> <td></td> <td>East to West in 32 hours ? minutes</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frank_Goldsborough" title="Frank Goldsborough">Frank Goldsborough</a></td> <td></td> <td>Combined East to West and West to East in 62 hours and 58 minutes.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Women's_transcontinental_air_speed_record"><span id="Women.27s_transcontinental_air_speed_record"></span>Women's transcontinental air speed record</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Transcontinental_flight&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Women's transcontinental air speed record"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the women's record, only in-flight time is counted </p> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Date </th> <th>Time </th> <th>Pilot </th> <th>Aircraft </th> <th>Notes and reference </th></tr> <tr> <td>1930 </td> <td></td> <td>13 hours, 21 minutes</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Nichols" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruth Nichols">Ruth Nichols</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1933 </td> <td></td> <td>13 hours, 7 minutes, 30 seconds</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amelia_Earhart" title="Amelia Earhart">Amelia Earhart</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1934 </td> <td></td> <td>10 hours, 5 minutes</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_(aviator)" title="Laura Ingalls (aviator)">Laura Ingalls</a> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Transcontinental_flight&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/World_record" title="World record">World record</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawn-to-dusk_transcontinental_flight_across_the_United_States" title="Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States">Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flight_altitude_record" title="Flight altitude record">Flight altitude record</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transcontinental_railroad" title="Transcontinental railroad">Transcontinental railroad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flyover_country" title="Flyover country">Flyover country</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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.cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.alternativeairlines.com/transcontinental-flights">"Transcontinental Flights | Alternative Airlines"</a>. <i>www.alternativeairlines.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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September 15, 1911<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 25,</span> 2010</span>. <q>James J. Ward, who left New York for San Francisco Wednesday, flying for the W.R. Hearst $50,000 prize for a transcontinental flight, reached Callicoon, N.Y., a few miles from here, at 4:35 o'clock this afternoon. He covered 59 1–10 miles in 57 minutes, having left Middletown, N.Y., at 3:38 o'clock.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Flier%2C+Seeking+to+Reach+San+Francisco%2C+Lands+at+Calicoon+Late+in+the+Afternoon&rft.date=1911-09-15&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1911%2F09%2F15%2Farchives%2Fward-138-miles-nearer-pacific-flier-seeking-to-reach-san-francisco.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATranscontinental+flight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"C. P. Rodgers' Aero Plunges into Surf at Long Beach. Hundreds See Tragedy. Hero of First Transcontinental Flight Victim of His Own Daring. When Lifted From Wrecked Machine His Neck Is Found to Be Broken. Birdman's Home in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Cousin of Lieut. Rodgers in Navy's Aerial Corps. Victim Author of Theory of 'Etherial Asphyxia.'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>". <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i>. April 4, 1912. <q><a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_California" title="Long Beach, California">Long Beach, California</a>, April 3, 1912. Calbraith P. Rodgers, the first man to cross the American continent in an aeroplane, was killed here almost instantly late today, when his biplane, in which he had been soaring over the ocean, fell from a height of 200 feet and buried him in the wreck. His neck was broken and his body mangled by the engine of his machine.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Washington+Post&rft.atitle=C.+P.+Rodgers%27+Aero+Plunges+into+Surf+at+Long+Beach.+Hundreds+See+Tragedy.+Hero+of+First+Transcontinental+Flight+Victim+of+His+Own+Daring.+When+Lifted+From+Wrecked+Machine+His+Neck+Is+Found+to+Be+Broken.+Birdman%27s+Home+in+Havre+de+Grace%2C+Maryland.+Cousin+of+Lieut.+Rodgers+in+Navy%27s+Aerial+Corps.+Victim+Author+of+Theory+of+%27Etherial+Asphyxia.%27&rft.date=1912-04-04&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATranscontinental+flight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pattillo-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-pattillo_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPattillo2001" class="citation book cs1">Pattillo, Donald M. 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(1949–1952)"</a>. <i>From Props to Jets: Commercial Aviation's Transition to the Jet Age 1952–1962</i>. <a href="/wiki/North_Branch,_Minnesota" title="North Branch, Minnesota">North Branch, Minnesota</a>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Specialty_Press&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Specialty Press (page does not exist)">Specialty Press</a>. p. 26. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1580071994" title="Special:BookSources/978-1580071994"><bdi>978-1580071994</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 12,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Jet+Age+Begins%2C+Or+Does+It%3F+%281949%E2%80%931952%29&rft.btitle=From+Props+to+Jets%3A+Commercial+Aviation%27s+Transition+to+the+Jet+Age+1952%E2%80%931962&rft.place=North+Branch%2C+Minnesota&rft.pages=26&rft.pub=Specialty+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1580071994&rft.aulast=Proctor&rft.aufirst=Jon&rft.au=Machat%2C+Mike&rft.au=Kodera%2C+Craig&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DiDegBwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA26&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATranscontinental+flight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NASA_JG_Bio-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-NASA_JG_Bio_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/glennbio.html">"Biography of John H. Glenn"</a>. <i>History</i>. <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>. November 12, 2008. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160312004257/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/glennbio.html">Archived</a> from the original on March 12, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 12,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=History&rft.atitle=Biography+of+John+H.+Glenn&rft.date=2008-11-12&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fcenters%2Fglenn%2Fabout%2Fbios%2Fglennbio.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATranscontinental+flight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120312193502/http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19240003000">"Fokker T-2"</a>. <i>www.nasm.si.edu</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19240003000">the original</a> on March 12, 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.nasm.si.edu&rft.atitle=Fokker+T-2&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasm.si.edu%2Fcollections%2Fartifact.cfm%3Fid%3DA19240003000&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATranscontinental+flight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historynet.com/frank-hawks-the-story-of-the-legendary-speed-flying-king.htm">"Frank Hawks: The Story of the Legendary Speed Flying King » HistoryNet"</a>. Aviation History. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 21,</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Frank+Hawks%3A+The+Story+of+the+Legendary+Speed+Flying+King+%C2%BB+HistoryNet&rft.pub=Aviation+History&rft.date=2006-11-06&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historynet.com%2Ffrank-hawks-the-story-of-the-legendary-speed-flying-king.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ATranscontinental+flight" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kinert 1967, p. 57</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aerofiles.com/sungod.html">The Flight of the Buhl Airsedan Spokane Sun-God first airplane to make a non-stop transcontinental round-trip flight</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19600014000">Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq", Charles A. Lindbergh</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160307010253/http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=a19600014000">Archived</a> March 7, 2016, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> National Air and Space Museum</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kinert 1967, p. 70</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.aviation-history.com/travelair/mystery.html">"Travel Air (Model R) "Mystery S" – USA"</a>. The Aviation History On-Line Museum<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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