[DOC] [TLE] Cross-America flight air speed record - Wikipedia [PAR] These are records for flight between coasts in North America. It has been 
suggested that this ... It took fifty days (3 days, 10 hours, 14 minutes actual flying 
time). ... West to East, Frank Hawks, Lockheed Air Express, Los Angeles to New 
York City .... 1957, July 16, 1957, 3 hours, 23 minutes, 8.4 seconds, West to East, 
Major... [DOC] [TLE] John Glenn Project Bullet Story - Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum [PAR] The flight lasted just three hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds, which beat the 
previous ... In total, four pilots would break the transcontinental air speed record 
in 1957. John Glenn's record setting flight was certainly not a publicity stunt. .... 3 
thoughts on John Glenn's Project Bullet F8U Crusader  The Rest of the Story. [DOC] [TLE] 40th Anniversary of Mercury 7: John Herschel Glenn, Jr. [PAR] ... In July 1957, while project officer of the F8U, he set a transcontinental speed 
record of 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds from Los Angeles to New York.15 
This was the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speeds.16 ... Prior 
to his flight Glenn served as backup pilot for Astronauts Shepard and Grissom. [DOC] [TLE] Howard Hughes Sets world Record | 20th Century Aviation ... [PAR] Taking off from New York City, Hughes continued to Paris, Moscow, Omsk, 
Yakutsk, Fairbanks, .... On July 16, 1957, then-Major John H. Glenn, Jr., USMC, 
set the transcontinental air speed record, flying an F8U-1P Crusader (BuNo ... 
California to NAS New YorkFloyd Bennett Field, in 3 hours, 23 minutes, and 8.4 
seconds. [DOC] [TLE] November - US Army Space and Missile Defense Command [PAR] 1957 to 2007  49 years and counting! ... flight to date at Point .... has always 
pointed toward the future, and in conjunction with ... Page 3 ..... an air speed 
record traveling from ... hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds. .... Staff Sgt. Stacy-
Lyn De La Hoz, moves a casualty to a collection point during ..... Army Astronaut 
Col. [DOC] [TLE] From the archives: John Glenn's return to space; A 2nd launch into ... [PAR] Oct 11, 1998 ... Our Network: News 12  am New York  Newsday Cars  The Hometown ... Crime  
Politics  Towns  NYC  U.S. / World  Business  Technology... [DOC] [TLE] Apollo 16 - East End of London - Revolvy [PAR] Young and Duke spent 71 hoursjust under three dayson the lunar surface, ... 
Apollo 16's landing spot in the highlands was chosen to allow the astronauts to ... 
prior to Apollo 16: Gemini 3, Gemini 10 and Apollo 10, which orbited the Moon. 
..... 7 hours, 23 minutes, and 26 seconds of EVA time, breaking a record that had
... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Astronautics and aeronautics" - Internet Archive [PAR] {NYT, 2 Jan 76, 10) 5 January-4 February: Permission to fly the British- and ...... 
Sheila Young of Detroit, Mich., set a world record of 40.91 sec for the 500-m race; 
..... which had a speed of nearly 1015 km per hr and could climb to 9 km in 3 min. 
..... AERONAUTICS, 1976 New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles. [DOC] [TLE] Escaping the Bonds of Earth_ the Fifties and the Sixties - Ben Evans [PAR] Only months after three American astronauts died in a launch pad fire and a 
Soviet ... Flying at 28,000 km/h, in his journey of just 108 minutes, he somehow 
..... No KP-3 signal had been received, barked Korolev, and he demanded that 
they ...... in just three hours, 23 minutes and 8.4 seconds as part of the Navy's 
Project [DOC] [TLE] Patrick Moore - Philip Atlas del Universo by IM POLUX - issuu [PAR] Feb 9, 2014 ... Dome of the William Herschel telescope at La Palma. ..... His total flight time was 
no more than 1 hour 40 minutes, but it was of ... 20 February 1962; his

Question: In 1957 this future astronaut set a speed record flying from L.A. to NYC in 3 hrs., 23 min., 8.4 sec.
Answer: John Glenn