Crowd gathers to catch a glimpse of the airplane that set a world record, flying non-stop from Moscow to southern California. July 14, 1937.
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Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Russian Flies 62 hours from Moscow - Hemet - CA., A crowd gathers to view the Tupolev ANT-25 flown by Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Yumashev, and Sergei Danilin from Moscow to a field outside San Jacinto, CA. The non-stop flight covered 6700 miles in 62 hours and 12 minutes, smashing the previous record for longest non-stop flight. July 14, 1937., Text from original nitrate sleeve: Russian plane that landed in a field near Hemet. 7-14-37., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.