Tag: 28 April 1939

Left: The first minutes on the U.S. territory. Kokkinaki and Gordienko on the wing of their plane. Right: The aircraft CKB-30 "Moscow"

On This Day In History: Unbelievable Flight Took Place – On Apr 28, 1939

MessageToEagle.com | April 28, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – On April 28, 1939, Soviet pilots Vladimir Kokkinaki and Mikhail Gordienko took off on a mission to fly between Moscow and America in the shortest possible time.