A transcontinental flight is a non-stop passenger flight from one side of a continent to the other. The term usually refers to flights across the United...
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York City Transcontinental flight, a flight across a continent, such as from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific across the U.S. Transcontinental railroad...
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James Banning (section Transcontinental flight)
Julia (May 13, 2020). "James H. Banning and The Flying Hoboes Transcontinental Flight". Metropolitan Airport News. Retrieved May 23, 2022. "Famous Coast-to-Coast...
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2008) was a barnstorming pilot, the first person to make a US transcontinental flight in a rotorcraft, the first to land a rotorcraft on the roof of...
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Flight" over U.S. Air Mail Route #2 (AM-2) from Los Angeles to New York, Post carried a quantity of 'cacheted' covers sponsored by Transcontinental &...
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20, 1911 – December 23, 1940) was an American aviator who set three transcontinental airspeed records for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. His...
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and Yair Lapid decided not to use the aircraft. As of 2024, each transcontinental flight on the plane costs more than $200,000. "OPÉRATEURS DE L'APPAREIL"...
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US Transcontinental Flight, with multiple stops along the historic US Airmail Routes, flying from Seattle to Los Angeles and the Transcontinental route...
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Aeroput (section Transcontinental flight)
After a short preparation, Sondermajer and Bajdak commenced their transcontinental from Paris on 20 April 1927. After covering 14,800 kilometers with...
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United States Navy test pilot he is known for making the first transcontinental flight by a jet aircraft. He also served as chairman of Pan Am from 1969...
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Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA), which began operating its first transcontinental flight routes in 1938. In 1965, TCA was renamed Air Canada following government...
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as NC13304 crashed near Chesterton, Indiana, United States. The transcontinental flight carried three crew and four passengers and originated in Newark...
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and the Vin Fiz: the First Transcontinental Flight. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989) E.P. Stein, Flight of the Vin Fiz (New York:...
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Calbraith Perry Rodgers (section Cross-country flight)
1912) was an American aviation pioneer. He made the first transcontinental airplane flight across the U.S. from September 17, 1911, to November 5, 1911...
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was an American aviator, nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938. After a transcontinental flight in July from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he then...
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TWA Flight 3 was a twin-engine Douglas DC-3-382 propliner, registration NC1946, operated by Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) as a scheduled domestic...
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pm the same day. The majority of transcontinental flights are operated during the day, but as of 2010, red-eye flights operate from Perth to Sydney, Brisbane...
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20th century. A Hiller UH-12 was the first helicopter to make a transcontinental flight across the USA, in 1949. It served in the Korean War with U.N....
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John Glenn (category American flight instructors)
and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous...
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Kimberly Anyadike (section Transcontinental flight)
she became the youngest African American woman to complete a transcontinental flight across the United States, from Los Angeles, California to Newport...
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aviation history when he bankrolled the pioneering transcontinental flight of Cal Rodgers. Armour used the flight to promote the introduction of a grape-flavored...
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junior transcontinental record, crashed into a peak of the Green Mountains eight ... Goldsborough, Frank (May 5, 1930). "Goldsborough Ends Flight With Record...
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American Airlines Flight 6001 was a transcontinental flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Hollywood Burbank Airport. On the morning of January...
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requested to live with him after having saved up for a one-way transcontinental flight. A Taiwan-based American streamer fell victim to a doxing and targeted...
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Trans World Airlines (redirect from Transcontinental and Western)
until it was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles...
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Trans-Coast Airways Flight 60 leaves Los Angeles on a flight to Washington, D.C. Three scientists on board the transcontinental flight have been summoned...
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being sent by United Airlines to the cockpits of its transcontinental flights, including Flight 93, warning of cockpit intrusion and telling of the New...
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and Burbank, but the second transcontinental flight did not happen until a month later, when on May 1, 1945, a flight was made from Washington, DC to...
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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...
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AI model trained in 2019, consumed "the energy of a round-trip transcontinental flight". GPT-3 released 552 metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere...
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