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1988
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American Experience
The Great Air Race of 1924 2 Season 1 Episode
55 min
1988
6.6
The first around-the-world air race, sponsored by the Army Air Service to prove that the airplane had a commercial future, was the ultimate test of man and machine. Four pilots took off in single-engine, open-cockpit planes; 175 days later, two remaining pilots would land where they'd begun, in Seattle.
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