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[sok]

when was the first nonstop NYC area to Tokyo flight? i mean what year or so.

i haven't been able to find that information anywhere.

[travelhouse]

Oct. 4-5, 1931. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., fly Bellanca monoplane Miss Veedol in first nonstop transpacific flight, 4,860 miles, from Tokyo, Japan, to Wenatchee, Wash., in 41 hours, 13 minutes.

[rocksandfossils]

I think he meant New York to Tokyo.

[Edited on 10/6/2005 by rocksandfossils]

[travelhouse]

http://www.aviationh...timeline_2.html

[VC-10]

They are both the same thing right? Both between the same 2 places, just one one direction and the other the other direction.

[Scalpel4]

I think he means commercial traffic, not historical milestone.

[sok]

Originally posted by Scalpel4
I think he means commercial traffic, not historical milestone.

That's exactly what I mean.

[Yesthatsme]

Dosent NWA fly that route

[treebeard787]

I think NW, UAL, AA, and JAL do but im not shure when they started flying it.