October 5, 1931
No Wheels Over the Pacific
The first nonstop transpacific flight by Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon on October 5, 1931
To cross the widest ocean on earth nonstop in nineteen thirty-one, two aviators deliberately dropped their plane's wheels into the sea just hours after takeoff. That audacious wager left them flying four thousand miles toward North America knowing their only way down was an intentional crash.
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