U.S. Pilot Lands Plane in Moscow--With Permission
American pilot Millard Harmon landed his single-engine Beechcraft in Moscow today after a 30-hour flight from Virginia to mark the 50th anniversary of the world’s first non-stop trans-polar flight between the Soviet Union and the United States.
A U.S. Embassy official said the “Ten Romeo,” piloted by the 61-year-old retired educator from Albany, N.Y., landed shortly before 2 p.m. at Sheremetyevo Airport.
Unlike West German daredevil Mathias Rust, 19, who made an unauthorized landing with his light aircraft near Red Square last month, Harmon had official permission, if not great support, from the Soviet Union.
His flight commemorating one by three Soviets in 1937 went unmentioned in the Soviet press.
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