In 1911, Cal Rodgers flew a grape-soda-sponsored biplane from Brooklyn to the Pacific in 84 days, surviving 15+ crashes to complete the first transcontinental flight in history.
Cal Rodgers completed the first coast-to-coast flight across America in 1911, covering 3,200 miles in a Wright biplane with no instruments, no weather service, and no map - just a railroad to follow.
In 1911, Cal Rodgers flew coast-to-coast in 49 days aboard a grape-soda-sponsored Wright biplane - crashing 15+ times, flying with a broken arm, and changing aviation forever.