5,000 Mile Flight By Amateur Aviator
5,000 Mile Flight By Amateur Aviator
Clip: 356105_1_1
Year Shot: 1959
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1657
Original Film: 032-020-04
HD: N/A
Location: Italy
Timecode: 00:23:56 - 00:24:39
5,000 Mile Flight By Amateur Aviator Max Conrad, with status of amateur airman, completes his 50th flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He makes it in a light, single-engine airplane - non-stop, from Chicago to Rome. People run toward taxiing plane. Man crawls out, gets a lei of sorts (no flowers on it) placed around his neck. Press photographers, small crowd. Young woman kisses the man on the cheek.