passengers mail, but it's the 247d that you see here flown by the famous flamboyant charismatic pilot roscoe turner and clyde pangborn come in third, it's a 92-hour flight. they get lost for three hours, have engine trouble but they make it and it's the airplane you see here that made that flight and part of the story in which the international press says the united states has jumped ahead in aeronautical technolo technology. how do we catch up? it's such a shock in terms of the performance of the airplanes. after the mcrobertson race, this aircraft goes back into the united airlines inventory and just an airliner. in the early 1970 lz it's gichb to the smithsonian from united airlines and restored and the view that you see on the right side the united airlines markings after the mcrobertson case. so you can see both histories of that airplane in 1934 and afterwards. with the creation of the air and space museum in 1976 and the opening this was put on display in the air transportugalry now america by air to show that story of that first very crucial moment of the modern airplane in this case an air

delivering mail -- but it's 247-d, that you see here, flown by the famous, flamboyant charismatic pilot roscoe turner and his co-pilot clyde pangborn, they came in third. it's a 92-hour flight. and they make stops. they get lost for three hours. they had engine troubles. but they make it. it's the airplane that you see and it's the airplane that you see here that made that flight and it's part of that story in which the international press says the united states has jumped ahead in aeronautical technology, how do we catch up. it's such a shock in terms of the performance of these airplanes. after the mac-robertson race, this aircraft goes back into the united airlines inventory as just an airliner and it goes out of service eventually and had several owners. but in the early 1970s, it's given to the smithsonian from united airlines and it's restored. and the view that you see here on the right side is united airlines markings it had after the macrobertson race. on the other side are the markings there the plane had after the macrobertson race. so you can see both histories of that airplane in 1934 an