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Yankee Doodle Sets Transcontinental Nonstop Record Flight
Los Angeles, Oct. 2. Marty Tucker's Lockheed Vega monoplane Yankee Doodle completed a record nonstop westward flight from New York to Los Angeles and landed at Mines Field after noon yesterday. Cant. G B D Collyer and Goebel, aboard, set an 18 hour 2 minute eastward flight from coast to coast, while the earlier 4 hour 1 minute eastward record and 26 hour 50 minute previous record were noted. The feat marked the second nonstop westward crossing, despite adverse wind and weather challenges over the Alleghenies and Rockies.
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