Tupolev ANT-25 Record Breaking Flight Moscow - San Jacinto, CA (1937)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Tupolev ANT-25 was a Soviet long-range experimental aircraft which was also tried as a bomber. First constructed in 1933, it was used by the Soviet Union for a number of record-breaking flights. Another widely publicized feat was the Moscow - San Jacinto non-stop flight in a backup aircraft just three weeks after Chkalov’s. This jourmey, via the North Pole, covered 11,500 kilometres (7,100 mi). The crew, still compos