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No Wheels Over the Pacific

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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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