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Miss Veedol
The ''Miss Veedol'' was the first airplane to fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. On October 5, 1931, Clyde Pangborn with co-pilot Hugh Herndon crash-landed the plane in the hills of East Wenatchee, Washington, in the central part of the state, and became the first men to fly non-stop across the northern Pacific Ocean. The 41 hour flight from Sabishiro Beach, Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan won them the 1931 Harmon Trophy, symbolizing the greatest achievement in flight for that year.
Afterward, she was sold and renamed ''The American Nurse''. On a 1932 flight from New York City to Rome for aviation medicine research, she was last sighted by an ocean liner in the eastern Atlantic, before disappearing without trace.
==Aircraft==
''Miss Veedol'' was a 1931 Bellanca CH-400〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bellanca Skyrocket CH-400 "Miss Veedol" )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bellanca Aircraft Corporation )〕 or Bellanca J-300 Long-Distance Special, registration NR796W. It was built at Bellanca Airfield in New Castle, Delaware. It could carry of fuel. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon modified ''Miss Veedol'' while being held in Japan—on unfounded suspicions of spying—to be able to carry more fuel, and to be able to jettison the landing gear. ''Miss Veedol'' carried an initial load of of aviation gasoline on her record-breaking flight.
As "Veedol" was an American brand of lubricating motor oil, it seems likely that ''Miss Veedol'' was named for it. However, it is unclear as to whether Veedol's manufacturer, Tidewater Oil Company (Tydol), partially sponsored the aviation endeavors of Herndon and Pangborn.
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