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Aerial view from Tupolev ANT-25 airplane flown from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA, breaking the world long-distance flight record. July 14, 1937

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Title: Aerial view from Tupolev ANT-25 airplane flown from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA, breaking the world long-distance flight record. July 14, 1937
Date Created and/or Issued: July 14, 1937
1937-07-14
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Aerial view from the Tupolev ANT-25 long-range Soviet airplane that Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Yumashev, and Sergei Danilin piloted from Moscow to a field outside San Jacinto, CA. The flight broke the record for longest non-stop flight, and helped to popularize the polar air route from Europe to North America. July 14, 1937.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Candid Camera shots of Russian Flyers - 15 films - 30 shots.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0027xkbg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Aeronautics--California--San Jacinto
Environment
World records--California--San Jacinto
Aerial views
Events
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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