{{Short description|Type of flight}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}} A '''transcontinental flight''' is a non-stop passenger flight from one side of a continent to the other. The term usually refers to flights across the United States, between the East and West Coasts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Transcontinental Flights {{!}} Alternative Airlines |url=https://www.alternativeairlines.com/transcontinental-flights |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=www.alternativeairlines.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==History== The first transcontinental multi-stop flight across the United States was made in 1911 by Calbraith Perry Rodgers in an attempt to win the Hearst prize offered by publisher William Randolph Hearst. Hearst offered a $US50,000 prize to the first aviator to fly coast to coast, in either direction, in less than 30 days from start to finish. Previous attempts by James J. Ward and Henry Atwood had been unsuccessful.<ref>{{Cite web |title=James J. Ward |url=https://www.earlyaviators.com/eward1.htm |access-date=2022-06-28 |website=earlyaviators.com}}</ref>
Rodgers persuaded J. Ogden Armour, of Armour and Company, to sponsor the flight, and in return he named the plane after Armour's grape soft drink "Vin Fiz". Rodgers left from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17, 1911, at 4:30 pm, carrying the first transcontinental mail pouch. He crossed the Rocky Mountains on November 5, 1911, and landed at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, at 4:04 pm, in front of a crowd of 20,000 people. He had missed the prize deadline by 19 days. He was accompanied on the ground by a support crew that repaired and rebuilt the plane after each crash landing. The trip required 70 stops.
On December 10, 1911, Rodgers flew to Long Beach, California, and symbolically taxied his plane into the Pacific Ocean.
==Timeline of early transcontinental flights== *1911 – James J. Ward, failed attempt.<ref>{{cite news |title=Flier, Seeking to Reach San Francisco, Lands at Calicoon Late in the Afternoon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/09/15/archives/ward-138-miles-nearer-pacific-flier-seeking-to-reach-san-francisco.html |quote=James J. Ward, who left New York for San Francisco Wednesday, flying for the W.R. Hearst $50,000 prize for a transcontinental flight, reached Callicoon, N.Y., a few miles from here, at 4:35 o'clock this afternoon. He covered 59 1–10 miles in 57 minutes, having left Middletown, N.Y., at 3:38 o'clock. |work=New York Times |date= September 15, 1911|access-date=2010-11-25 }}</ref> *1911 – Henry Atwood, failed attempt. *1911 – Calbraith Perry Rodgers – Start: September 17, 1911, at 4:30 pm; finish: November 5, 1911.<ref>{{cite news |title=C. P. Rodgers' Aero Plunges into Surf at Long Beach. Hundreds See Tragedy. Hero of First Transcontinental Flight Victim of His Own Daring. When Lifted From Wrecked Machine His Neck Is Found to Be Broken. Birdman's Home in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Cousin of Lieut. Rodgers in Navy's Aerial Corps. Victim Author of Theory of 'Etherial Asphyxia.' |quote=Long Beach, California, April 3, 1912. Calbraith P. Rodgers, the first man to cross the American continent in an aeroplane, was killed here almost instantly late today, when his biplane, in which he had been soaring over the ocean, fell from a height of 200 feet and buried him in the wreck. His neck was broken and his body mangled by the engine of his machine. |newspaper=Washington Post |date=April 4, 1912 }}</ref><ref name=pattillo>{{cite book|last1=Pattillo|first1=Donald M.|title=Pushing the Envelope: The American Aircraft Industry|date=February 28, 2001|publisher=The University of Michigan Press|location=Ann Arbor|isbn=9780472086719|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=shwtKbTbEuEC&pg=PA14|access-date=November 21, 2014}}</ref> *1912 – Robert George Fowler - Start: September 11, 1911; finish: February 8, 1912.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} *1923 – First non-stop flight from Long Island, New York to Rockwell Field, San Diego by Lt. John Macready and Lt. Oakley Kelly in a Fokker T-2<ref name="NASM Fokker T-2">{{cite web |url=http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19240003000 |title=Fokker T-2 |work=Collections |publisher=National Air and Space Museum |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160311234850/http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?object=nasm_A19240003000 |archive-date=March 11, 2016 |access-date=2016-03-11 }}</ref> *1929 – The Buhl Airsedan "Spokane Sun-God" was the first aircraft to make a non-stop US transcontinental round-trip flight on August 15, 1929 (Nick Mamer and Art Walker flew it from Spokane, Washington, to New York City and back between August 15 and 21, 1929, taking 120 hours 1 minute 40 seconds).<ref name="Aerofiles">{{cite web |url=http://www.aerofiles.com/sungod.html |title=The Flight of the Spokane Sun-God |last=Meister |first=Richard L. Jr. |publisher=Aerofiles |date=2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312002106/http://www.aerofiles.com/sungod.html |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |access-date=2016-03-12 }}</ref> *1930 – Frank Hawks flew from San Diego to New York in a towed glider leaving San Diego March 30, 1930, and arriving in New York eight days later.<ref name="PM 1930">{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-MDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA883 |title=Glider is Towed by Plane Across the Nation |work=Popular Mechanics |date=1930 |publisher=Hearst Magazines |access-date=2016-03-11 }}</ref> *1932 – First scheduled cross-country through passenger flights (no change of plane).<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/tw/tw3211/tw3211-3.jpg | title=Fastest Service Coast to Coast | website=www.timetableimages.com | access-date=2024-07-28}}</ref> *1933 – Transcontinental passenger flights in as little as 20 hours on the Boeing 247.<ref name="Boeing 2003">{{cite web |url=http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2003/may/i_history.html |title=From mail-sack seats to sleeping berths and above-cloud routes |last=Merritt |first=Larry |work=Boeing Frontiers |publisher=Boeing |date=2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312001750/http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2003/may/i_history.html |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |access-date=2016-03-12 }}</ref> *1934 – First three-stop airline flights (TWA DC-2s). *1946 – First one-stop airline flights (United DC-4s and TWA Constellations).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Proctor |first1=Jon |last2=Machat |first2=Mike |last3=Kodera |first3=Craig |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDegBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 |title=From Props to Jets: Commercial Aviation's Transition to the Jet Age 1952–1962 |chapter=The Jet Age Begins, Or Does It? (1949–1952) |location=North Branch, Minnesota |publisher=Specialty Press |year=2010 |page=26 |isbn=978-1580071994 |access-date=2016-03-12 }}</ref> *1953 – First sustained nonstop airline flights (TWA may have flown some LA-NY nonstops in 1947). *1957 – First transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed. John Glenn flew from Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, California to Floyd Bennett Field, New York in 3 hours and 23 minutes.<ref name="NASA JG Bio">{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/glennbio.html |title=Biography of John H. Glenn |work=History |publisher=NASA |date=November 12, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312004257/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/glennbio.html |archive-date=March 12, 2016 |access-date=2016-03-12 }}</ref>
==Transcontinental air speed records== In-flight and on-ground time are counted after the earliest flights {{Incomplete list|date=August 2008}} {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" |- ! Year ! Date ! Time ! Direction ! Pilot ! Aircraft ! Notes and reference |- | 1911 || September 17|| 3 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes || East to West || Calbraith Perry Rodgers || Vin Fiz Flyer || The first transcontinental flight. It took fifty days (3 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes actual flying time). Rodgers made it in some seventy hops, flying a Wright biplane which was damaged and repaired so many times en route that nothing remained of the original machine at the finish but the drip pan and the vertical rudder. |- |1919 || October 11|| 3 days, 3 hours, 5 minutes [http://www.newsobserver.com/543/story/267370.html]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} || East to West || Belvin Maynard || DH-4 || On the first leg of the "Transcontinental Air Race of 1919" which saw 33 planes cross the U.S. with 8 completing the round-trip (out of 67 which began the trip). Nine deaths occurred during what was officially the U.S. Army's "Transcontinental Reliability and Endurance Test" |- |1922 || September 4|| 21 hours, 19 minutes || East to West || Jimmy Doolittle || DH-4 || Pablo Beach, Florida, to San Diego, California, with only one refueling stop [https://web.archive.org/web/20070208220946/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/doolittle/EX18.htm] |- | 1923 || May 2–3|| 26 hours, 50 minutes, 38.4 seconds || East to West || Lt John A. Macready and Lt Oakley G. Kelly || Fokker T-2 || First nonstop transcontinental flight: Roosevelt Field, Long Island to Rockwell Field, North Island, San Diego. Longest straight-line distance covered nonstop until then<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19240003000 | title=Fokker T-2 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312193502/http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19240003000 | archive-date=2012-03-12 | website=www.nasm.si.edu}}</ref> |- | 1924 || June 23|| 20 hours, 48 minutes || East to West || Russell Maughan || Curtiss P-1 Hawk || First transcontinental flight "during hours of daylight". New York City to San Francisco, average speed 128 miles per hour |- | 1929 ||February 4||18 hours 22 minutes||West to East|| Frank Hawks || Lockheed Air Express ||Los Angeles Van Nuys to New York Roosevelt Field nonstop, 2481 miles, with mechanic/fueller Oscar Grubb |- | 1929 ||June 27|| 19 hours, 10 minutes || East to West || Frank Hawks || Lockheed Air Express<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.historynet.com/frank-hawks-the-story-of-the-legendary-speed-flying-king.htm|title=Frank Hawks: The Story of the Legendary Speed Flying King » HistoryNet|date=November 6, 2006|access-date=2009-01-21 |publisher= Aviation History}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=February 2014}} || New York City to Los Angeles<ref>Kinert 1967, p. 57</ref> |- | 1929 ||June 28|| 17 hours, 36 minutes || West to East || Frank Hawks || Lockheed Air Express || Los Angeles to New York City |- | 1929 ||August 15|| 120 hr 1 min 40 sec<ref>[http://www.aerofiles.com/sungod.html The Flight of the Buhl Airsedan Spokane Sun-God first airplane to make a non-stop transcontinental round-trip flight]</ref>|| West to East and East to West ||Nick Mamer and Art Walker|| Buhl Airsedan "Spokane Sun-God" || First non-stop transcontinental round-trip flight from Spokane, Washington to New York City and back |- | 1930 ||April 20|| 14 hr 45 min||West to East|| Charles A. Lindbergh || Lockheed Sirius ||Los Angeles (Glendale) to New York Roosevelt Field, one stop<ref>[http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19600014000 Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq", Charles A. Lindbergh] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307010253/http://airandspace.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=a19600014000 |date=March 7, 2016 }} National Air and Space Museum</ref> |- | 1930 || May 27|| 18 hr 43 min||East to West|| Roscoe Turner ||Lockheed Air Express||New York City to Los Angeles with 3 passengers.<ref>Kinert 1967, p. 70</ref> |- | 1930 ||Aug 13|| 12 hr 25 min||West to East||Frank Hawks|| Travel Air "Mystery S" ||Los Angeles to New York City; three stops<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aviation-history.com/travelair/mystery.html|title=Travel Air (Model R) "Mystery S" – USA|access-date=2009-01-21 |publisher= The Aviation History On-Line Museum}}</ref><ref>"Behind the name of Captain Frank M. Hawks, in aviation's record book today is set down the time of 12 hours, 25 minutes, 3 seconds for an eastward transcontinental flight, the fastest ever flown by man over the distance of 2,500 miles." Newark Advocate, Newark, Ohio, August 15, 1930; Valley Stream, New York; August 14, 1930 (Associated Press)</ref> |- |1931||September 4||11 hr 16 min 10 sec||West to East|| Jimmy Doolittle ||1931 Laird Super Solution ||Burbank CA to Newark NJ, three stops [http://www.airventuremuseum.org/collection/aircraft/Laird%20Super%20Solution%20Replica.asp] |- |1932||August 29||10 hr 19 min||West to East|| Jimmy Haizlip || Wedell-Williams Model 44 ||Burbank to New York Floyd Bennett; two stops. Completed after winning the 2nd annual Bendix Trophy race.<ref>Glines 1995, p. 154</ref> |- |1932||November 14||12 hr 33 min||East to West||Roscoe Turner||Wedell-Williams Model 44||New York Floyd Bennett to Burbank, California; three stops<ref>Glines 1995, p. 155</ref> |- |1933||July 1||11 hr 30 min||East to West||Roscoe Turner||Wedell-Williams Model 44||New York Floyd Bennett to Burbank, California; four stops<ref>Glines 1995, p. 159</ref> |- |1933||September 24–25||10 hr 5 min 30 sec||West to East||Roscoe Turner|| Wedell-Williams Model 44 ||Burbank, California to New York Floyd Bennett; two stops<ref>Glines 1995, p. 166</ref> |- |1936|| January 13|| 9 hr 27 min 10sec|| West to East || Howard Hughes ||Northrop Gamma<ref>{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3101/is_3_54/ai_n29372923/pg_5|title=A visionary ahead of his time: Howard Hughes and the U.S. Air Force – Part I: The Air Corps Design Competition | work= Air Power History |access-date=2009-01-11 |publisher= CBS Interactive Inc.|year=2007 | first=Thomas | last=Wildenberg}}</ref> || Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20061207022428/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Hughes/EX28.htm</ref> |- | 1937 ||January 19|| 7 hr 28 min 25 sec||West to East||Howard Hughes||Hughes H-1 Racer|| nonstop Burbank, California to overhead Newark Airport, NJ; 2445 miles |- | 1939 || February 11|| 7 hr ? min ||West to East|| Benjamin S. Kelsey ||XP-38<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760764,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915153316/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,760764,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 15, 2008| title=Sleek, Fast and Luckless|access-date=2009-01-11 |publisher= Time Inc.|date=February 20, 1939}}</ref> || 7 hr 43 min March Field, California to overhead Mitchel Field, New York including 41 min on ground at Amarillo and Dayton |- | 1945 ||January 9||6 hr 4 min||West to East|| Curtin L. Reinhardt || C-97 Stratofreighter || Seattle to Washington, D.C., average speed 383 mph<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080118102042/http://www.boeing.com/history/chronology/chron06.html</ref> |- | 1945 ||May 1||5 hr 40 min||West to East|| Najeeb Halaby ||Lockheed YP-80 Shooting Star || Muroc AFB to Patuxent River NAS<ref>{{cite web |title=Najeeb E. Halaby |url=https://lonestarflight.org/hall-of-fame/najeeb-e-halaby/ |website=lonestarflight.org |access-date=19 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025185942/https://www.lonestarflight.org/najeeb-elias-halaby|archive-date=October 25, 2018}}</ref> |- | 1945 ||December|| 5 hr 17 min ||West to East|| Glen Edwards and Lt. Col. Henry E. Warden || XB-42 Mixmaster ||Captain Glen Edwards and Lt. Col. Henry E. Warden set a new transcontinental record flying the XB-42 from Long Beach, California to Bolling Field in Washington DC (2301 miles) in 5 hours 17 minutes, average 433.6 mph (697.8 km/h). |- | 1945 ||December||5 hr 27 min 8 sec||West to East||Col C. S. Irvine||Boeing B-29 ||Burbank, California to overhead Floyd Bennett Field, New York; average 450 miles/hour for 2459 miles |- |1946|| January 26||4 hr 13 min 26 sec||West to East|| Col W. H. Councill || Lockheed P-80 || Long Beach, California to overhead La Guardia Airport, New York; 2460 miles nonstop, unrefuelled |- |1947|| September 3||7 hr 00 min 04 sec||East to West||Paul Mantz||North American P-51||La Guardia Airport, NY to Burbank, California, 2459 miles |- |1949||February 8|| 3 hr 46 min ||West to East || || B-47 Stratojet || Larson AFB, Moses Lake, Washington to Andrews AFB near Washington DC, 607.8 mph average [https://web.archive.org/web/20070203203000/http://www.boeing.com/history/chronology/chron07.html] |- |1954||January 2||4 hr 8 min 5 sec||West to East||Col Willard Millikan|| North American F-86F || Los Angeles LAX to overhead New York Floyd Bennett, 2468 miles; time includes fuel stop at Offutt AFB |- |1954||March 30||4 hr 24 min 17 sec||West to East||Joe DeBona|| North American P-51C ||Los Angeles LAX nonstop to New York Idlewild, 2474 miles – still the prop record (560 mph) |- |1954||April 1||3 hr 45 min 30 sec||West to East||LtCdr Francis Brady||Grumman F9F-7 Cougar||San Diego North Island to New York Floyd Bennett, 2442 miles, nonstop, one refuelling |- |1955||March 9||3 hr 46 min 33.6 sec||West to East||Lt Col Robert Scott|| Republic F-84F || Los Angeles LAX to overhead New York Floyd Bennett, 2468 miles; two aerial refuellings |- |1955||May 21||5 hr 28 min||East to West||Lieut John Conroy||North American F-86||New York Mitchel Field to Los Angeles Van Nuys, 2481 miles, three stops |- |1957||March 21||5 hr 15 min||East to West||Cdr Dale Cox||Douglas A3D||nonstop unrefuelled New York Floyd Bennett to Los Angeles LAX |- |1957||March 23|| 3 hr 39 min 24 sec||West to East|| ||Douglas A3D|| Burbank CA to overhead Miami MCAS, FL |- |1957||May 19||3 hr 38 min||West to East|| || N American F-100F || Palmdale CA to McGuire AFB, NJ |- |1957||July 16||3 hr 23 min 8.4 sec ||West to East|| Major John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC|| Vought F8U-1P Crusader || "Project Bullet" non-stop from NAS Los Alamitos, California 2455 miles to Floyd Bennett Field, New York averaging Mach 1.1, despite three refuelings from AJ piston-engine tankers during which speed dropped below 300 mph. Glenn's on-board reconnaissance camera recorded the first continuous panoramic photograph of the United States. |- |1957 ||November 27|| 3 hr 5 min 39.2 sec||West to East||Lieutenant Gustav Klatt<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1866 |title=Fact Sheets : Operation Sun Run : Operation Sun Run |access-date=2009-06-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503120108/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=1866 |archive-date=May 3, 2009 }}</ref>||F-101 Voodoo|| "Operation Sun Run", RF-101C refuelled four times by KC-135s; Ontario, California to overhead Floyd Bennett Field, New York, 781.7 mph [https://web.archive.org/web/20070206050047/http://www.boeing.com/history/chronology/chron09.html][http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/rf-101.htm] |- | 1961 ||May 24|| 2 hr 47 min 18 sec||West to East|| Lieutenant Richard F. Gordon, Jr., U.S. Navy|| McDonnell F4H || Ontario, California to overhead Floyd Bennett Field, New York; three aerial refuellings from A3Ds |- |1962 ||March 5|| 2 hr 1 min 39 sec||West to East||Robert G. Sowers|| Convair B-58 ||overhead Los Angeles to overhead New York; one aerial refuelling |- |1990 ||March 6|| 1 hr 7 min 53.69 sec ||West to East|| Lt Col Ed Yeilding and Lt Col Joseph T. Vida ||SR-71A Blackbird 61-7972 | On delivery flight to the Smithsonian Institution, where the aircraft is now on display at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy center, this SR-71 set the current transcontinental record. Yeilding and Vida crossed the west coast near Ventura, CA and, 2,404.5 miles later, crossed the east coast near Salisbury, MD averaging 2,124.51 mph [http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/records.php] |- |2003||February 5||2 hr 56 min 20 sec||West to East||Steve Fossett, Douglas Travis||Cessna Citation X||San Diego to Charleston SC, 2150 great-circle miles; fastest transcon flight by a subsonic aircraft |- |2003||February 6||3 hr 51 min 52 sec||West to East||Steve Fossett, Joseph Ritchie||Piaggio Avanti||San Diego to Charleston SC; fastest transcon flight by a turboprop |- | 2003 ||November 5||3 hr 55 min 12 sec||East to West|| Mike Bannister and Les Broadie || Concorde G-BOAG ||Flying to museum at retirement of the aircraft, New York to Seattle<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/concorde | title=Concorde {{pipe}} the Museum of Flight }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Thousands welcome Concorde to Seattle|author=Larry Lange|date=November 5, 2003|newspaper=Seattle Post-Intelligencer|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Thousands-welcome-Concorde-to-Seattle-1128999.php}}</ref> |- |}
==Junior transcontinental air speed record== For the junior record only in-flight time is counted at a certain speed
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" |- ! Year ! Date ! Time ! Pilot ! Aircraft ! Notes and reference |- | 1928 || || || Richard James (aviator) || Travel Air || Previous "record" of 48 hours, set last year by 18-year-old Richard James, was spread over a month elapsed time.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930093542/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,752559,00.html] |- | 1930 || October 4, 1930 || East to West in 23 hours, 47 minutes || Robert Nietzel Buck || Pitcairn PA-6 Mailwing || On October 4, 1930, Robert beat the junior transcontinental air speed record of Eddie August Schneider in his PA-6 Pitcairn Mailwing he named "Yankee Clipper". His time was 23 hours, 47 minutes of elapsed flying time. Robert said on February 6, 2005: "I was the youngest to fly coast to coast and that record still stands. I had my license at 16 and after that, they raised the minimum age to 17. With that change, no one could break my record." |- | 1930 || August 18, 1930 || East to West in 29 hours, 55 minutes || Eddie August Schneider || Cessna || Leaving from Westfield, New Jersey on August 14, 1930, to Los Angeles, California in 4 days with a combined flying time of 29 hours and 55 minutes. He lowered the East to West record by 4 hours and 22 minutes. He then made the return trip from Los Angeles to Roosevelt Field, New York in 27 hours, 19 minutes, lowering the West to East record by 1 hour and 36 minutes. His total elapsed time for the round trip was 57 hours, 14 minutes. |- | 1930 || || East to West in 32 hours ? minutes || Frank Goldsborough || || Combined East to West and West to East in 62 hours and 58 minutes.<ref>{{citation|magazine=Time|date=May 12, 1930|title=Flights & Flyers|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,752559,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930093542/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,752559,00.html |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref> |- |}
==Women's transcontinental air speed record== For the women's record, only in-flight time is counted {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" |- ! Year !Date ! Time ! Pilot !Aircraft !Notes and reference |- |1930 | || 13 hours, 21 minutes|| Ruth Nichols | | |- |1933 | || 13 hours, 7 minutes, 30 seconds|| Amelia Earhart | | |- |1934 | || 10 hours, 5 minutes|| Laura Ingalls | | |- |}
==See also== *World record *Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States *Flight altitude record *Transcontinental railroad *Flyover country
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== *Glines, Carroll V. 1995. ''Roscoe Turner; Aviation's Master Showman''. Smithsonian Institution Press {{ISBN|1-56098-798-7}} *Kinert, Reed. 1967. ''Racing Planes and Air Races: A Complete History'', Vol.2 1924–1931. Aero Publishers Inc ASIN B000J40KCU
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