The first transpolar flight landed 75 years ago today at my home field, Pearson Field in Vancouver WA. The huge single-engine Ant-25 with its three man Soviet crew took off from Moscow 63 hours earlier, and was greeted here by the Commanding Officer of Vancouver Barracks, General George C. Marshall.
http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jun/20/chkalovs-1937-flight-inspired-young-flier-be/?print
http://www.columbian.com/news/2012/jun/20/chkalovs-1937-flight-inspired-young-flier-be/?print
