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1948:"Transcontinental Flights | Alternative Airlines"
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2670:Racing Planes and Air Races: A Complete History
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291:Timeline of early transcontinental flights
2052:Pattillo, Donald M. (February 28, 2001).
1813:Women's transcontinental air speed record
217:Learn how and when to remove this message
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2656:Roscoe Turner; Aviation's Master Showman
2414:"Travel Air (Model R) "Mystery S" – USA"
1679:Junior transcontinental air speed record
2612:"Thousands welcome Concorde to Seattle"
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2939:greatest of a spacecraft population
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2136:from the original on March 12, 2016
2130:"The Flight of the Spokane Sun-God"
2109:from the original on March 11, 2016
324:1923 - First non-stop flight from
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419:Transcontinental air speed record
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18:Transcontinental air speed record
2878:furthest travel on another world
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2610:Larry Lange (November 5, 2003).
2184:"Fastest Service Coast to Coast"
2128:Meister, Richard L. Jr. (2000).
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1617:Steve Fossett, Douglas Travis
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2288:"Biography of John H. Glenn"
1465:NAS Los Alamitos, California
1131:and Lt. Col. Henry E. Warden
1094:Lockheed YP-80 Shooting Star
2492:Wildenberg, Thomas (2007).
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2520:"Sleek, Fast and Luckless"
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2924:greatest of a spaceflight
2654:Glines, Carroll V. 1995.
1923:Transcontinental railroad
1784:Roosevelt Field, New York
1108:October 25, 2018, at the
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148:"Transcontinental flight"
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2208:Merritt, Larry (2003).
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1500:Lieutenant Gustav Klatt
1030:Mitchel Field, New York
500:Calbraith Perry Rodgers
312:Calbraith Perry Rodgers
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255:Calbraith Perry Rodgers
231:transcontinental flight
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2630:"Flights & Flyers"
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1918:Flight altitude record
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2905:Deepest ocean vehicle
2640:on September 30, 2007
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2500:. CBS Interactive Inc
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1779:Westfield, New Jersey
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2934:greatest of a person
2668:Kinert, Reed. 1967.
2006:. September 15, 1911
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839:Laird Super Solution
787:Lockheed Air Express
756:Charles A. Lindbergh
703:Lockheed Air Express
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656:Lockheed Air Express
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319:Robert George Fowler
133:improve this article
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2863:furthest spacecraft
2825:Water-borne vehicle
2766:propulsively-driven
2482:Glines 1995, p. 166
2473:Glines 1995, p. 159
2464:Glines 1995, p. 155
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2706:Extremes of motion
2550:lonestarflight.org
2546:"Najeeb E. Halaby"
2403:Kinert 1967, p. 70
2364:Kinert 1967, p. 57
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