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To: Openurmind

On April 17, 1944, Howard Hughes and TWA (Trans World Airlines) president Jack Frye flew a prototype Lockheed Constellation airliner from Burbank, California, to Washington, D.C., in 6 hours and 58 minutes, breaking the transcontinental speed record, and averaging 331mph.

On April 26, during the return trip, the aircraft stopped at Wright Field in Dayton to pick up a very special passenger: Orville Wright.
https://www.daytonlocal.com/blog/history/orville-wrights-final-flight.asp


44 posted on 12/17/2023 5:42:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Oh wow... Cool factoid!


50 posted on 12/18/2023 1:48:58 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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