Crowd gathers to catch a glimpse of the airplane that set a world record, flying non-stop from Moscow to southern California. July 14, 1937.

Title: Crowd gathers to catch a glimpse of the airplane that set a world record, flying non-stop from Moscow to southern California. July 14, 1937.
Date Created: June 14, 1937
Date: 1937-07-14
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description: A crowd gathers to view 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: Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Russian Flies 62 hours from Moscow - Hemet - CA.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Russian plane that landed in a field near Hemet. 7-14-37.

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Location: San Jacinto (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Events
Airplanes--Russian--California--San Jacinto
World records--California--San Jacinto
Crowds--California--San Jacinto

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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