they were sponsored by the armor meat packing company who developed a fizzy grape product called vin fiz. it had a big advertising on the top and the bottom of the wing. they provided the pilot with a rare road car with spare parts, mechanics, and his mother and his wife to travel across the united states, chasing him as he went through. flying in these days with very difficult and very rough. you couldn't go very far. you were very subject to weather. any type of wind or precipitation was very bad. and of course, there were always the crash landings. he did not make it in 30 days. but armor said, keep on going and we will continue to pay your expenses. he got to santa monica, california, landed on the beach and taxied the plane into the pacific ocean to say that he had been all the way across the country. by the way, when he finally got there, the only original parts of the airplane were two of the wing struts, the oil pan to the engine and the elevator. the rest of the plane had been completely replaced in the time it took to fly across the united states. now that we have taken a look