Notable Flights
Pterodactyls have been flown on many long flights. John D. (Jack) Peterson, Jr. completed a flight in a Pfledge from Long Beach, California to Hilton Head, South Carolina over a period of 29 days between July 9 and August 6, 1979, with ground support. He flew the 3,200-mile (5,100 km) distance by flying distances of a maximum of 120 miles (194 km) in a single flight. This feat was the first time that an ultralight airplane had been flown across the USA from coast to coast. Peterson’s aircraft is on display in the Smithsonian Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
McCornack and Nicely's 1979 flight from Monterey, California to Oshkosh, Wisconsin and onto the Atlantic coast was the second transcontinental flight by this aircraft type and was done mostly without ground support.
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