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5 5 500 MILES
On 5th October 1931 Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr two daring American aviators completed the the world’s first nonstop transpacific flight from Japan to to to to the the United States They took off and and landed 41 hours later in in in Wenatchee Washington having covered
a a a a a a a a distance of 5 5 500 miles At the the time it was the the longest flight ever made over water PIONEERING
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