Video: 'Pacific Conquered - the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight, 1931'

(Monday, October 5, 1931, 7:14 a.m. PST) — Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, making a controlled crash landing of their red Bellanca J-300 Long Distance Special, the Miss Veedol, today on a strip cut out of the sagebrush on Fancher Field near what is now East Wenatchee, Washington, 41 hours and 13 minutes after taking off from Misawa, Japan.

Video: 'First non-stop trans Pacific flight, 1931'

The two flew about 2,000 more miles than Charles “Lucky Lindy” Lindbergh had four years earlier when he piloted the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris.