Cal Rodgers’ Pioneering Cross-Country Flight in 1911
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Cal Rodgers' flight helped foreshadow a century of flight.
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Cal Rodgers’ pioneering cross-country flight in 1911 foreshadowed the many long-distance record flights of the 1920s and ’30s and showed the potential of air travel and aviation technology. The airplane was now poised to change the world.
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National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution (SI 2007-8691).
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SI 2007-8691
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1911
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