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The distance of 5,011.8 miles (8,065.7 km), over a total of forty nine hours and twenty minutes helped to establish a distance record, was the first known non-stop flight whose distance surpassed either
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for a repair cost of $ 25,000 (equivalent to $ 455,976 in today's dollars). After it was repaired, it was renamed
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