Soviet long-distance aviators

• Main Author: Unknown
• Other Authors: Abernethy, Lynn
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: Auburn University Libraries 1937
• Subjects: Eastern Air Lines; inc.; Rickenbacker; Eddie; 1890-1973; Air pilots > Soviet Union; Airlines > United States; Aeronautics Records; Bertrand; North Pole
• Online Access: http://content.lib.auburn.edu/cdm/ref/collection/eddier/id/13; http://diglib.auburn.edu/images/sparcimages/101-96-066-2014.jpg

Record-holding Soviet long-distance aviators in NYC. 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 di...