Close-up view of Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft flown from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA, breaking the world record for long-distance flight. July 14, 1937.

Title: Close-up view of Tupolev ANT-25 aircraft flown from Moscow to San Jacinto, CA, breaking the world record for long-distance flight. July 14, 1937.
Date Created: July 14, 1937
Date: 1937-07-14
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: Close-up of the exterior of the Tupolev ANT-25 flown by Mikhail Gromov, Andrei Yumashev, and Sergei Danilin from Moscow to a field outside San Jacinto, CA. The non-stop flight covered 6700 miles in 62 hours and 12 minutes, smashing the previous record for longest non-stop flight. July 14, 1937.
Caption: Text from original nitrate sleeve: Candid Camera shots of Russian Flyers - 15 films - 30 shots.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: San Jacinto (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Aeronautics--California--San Jacinto
Airplanes--Russian--California--San Jacinto
World records--California--San Jacinto
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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0027xkzs
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