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Historic Flight

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• TVL1970 said:

  This is actually a photo of the Curtiss Carrier Pigeon (NR35 (NC35); c/n 9), flown by Paul Whittier and Slade Hulbert, that refueled the Buhl CA-5 Airsedan named "The Angeleno" (NC3763 (NR3763)) during its record-setting 246 hour 43 minute endurance flight in July 1929.

AL-73C Luqueer Album Image _00230

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• Batman_60 said:

  Pilots Loren W. Mendell and Roland B. Reinhart flew Buhl CA-5A Air Sedan NR3763 'The Angeleno' for over 246 hours (over ten days) between July 2-12 1929, using 4085 gallons of fuel and 105 gallon of oil in 37 refuelings in flight by this "aerial tanker", Curtiss Carrier Pigeon NR35Y c/n K-5015-9.