Soviet long-distance aviators
Soviet aviators arrive in New York City on an Eastern Air Lines flight to meet Eddie Rickenbacker. On July 13, 1937 the three-man Soviet crew of Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Youmachev and Sergei Daniline flew an ANT-25 from Moscow, across the North Pole, to San Jacinto, California, a distance of slightly...
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Auburn University Libraries
1937
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Summary: | Soviet aviators arrive in New York City on an Eastern Air Lines flight to meet Eddie Rickenbacker. On July 13, 1937 the three-man Soviet crew of Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Youmachev and Sergei Daniline flew an ANT-25 from Moscow, across the North Pole, to San Jacinto, California, a distance of slightly more than 6,295 miles. They set a new world distance record for a nonstop flight in a straight line. Caption on verso reads, " les AVIATEURS RUSSES, detenteurs du record du monde de distance en ligne droite, arrivent a New York - arrivee a l'aerodrome de North Beach, de gauche a droite: Andrei Yumashev, le depute Harold Fowler, le chef pilote Michel Gromov, Paul Borovoy, Consul General de L'URSS a New York, Serge Daniline, Mr. Oumansky, charge d'affaires de L'URSS a Washington et Charles Jaffee, New York, Aout 1937. U.S. Information Agency; photo no. 306-NT-118.046 in the National Archives" |
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