The first flight across America took 49 days

Cal Rodgers took off from New York on September 17, 1911, in a plane named Vin Fiz, after the grape soda that sponsored him. He crashed many times and rebuilt along the way. On November 5, 1911, he landed in Pasadena, California, the first person to fly across the country. In December he flew on to touch the Pacific at Long Beach.

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