Show round trip sea flight in 43 hours 45 minutes 0 7 t ear WIP A the four motored german monoplane brandenburg which successfully completed a round trip flight between ber berlin lin and new york city the plane covered the flight from berlin to new york in 24 hours and q 51 minutes and two days later made the homeward flight from new york to berlin in 19 hours and 55 minutes capt alfred henke who was assisted by a crew of three wears a big smile over his remarkable feat the east to west crossing was the first time in history such a feat has been accomplished the flyers clipped 5 hours and 50 minutes from the only previous nonstop non stop west to east crossing to berlin the late wiley post made the previous record on the first leg of his round the world flight in 1933 airmen hailed the flight as one of the greatest achievements of aviation because of its clock like precision |