Howard Hughes lands at Le Bourget airport in Paris, 1938
The American pilot Howard Hughes landed with his two-motor Lockheed airplane Newyork Worldfair at the Le Bourget airport in Paris at 4:55pm on July 11, 1938. The pilot started at 11:30pm middle European time on July 10, 1938 from New York and crossed the Atlantic from west to east in all together 16 hours and 35 minutes. The 4, 500 km distance was covered at an average of 300 km/h. This meant a new record in transatlantic flight from west to east. The airplane is equipped with two 9-cylinder Wright radial motors with 1, 100 horse power each
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Mary Evans / Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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