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Clarence Duncan Chamberlin And Bertrand Blanchard Acosta Talking in Front of an Airplane, 1920s. In April 1927 American aviators Clarence Chamberlin (left) and Bert Acosta set an endurance record for an aeroplane flight, staying in the air for 51 hours, 11 minutes and 25 seconds in their Wright-Bellanca WB-2 monoplane 'Miss Columbia'. Later the same year Chamberlin completed the second successful nonstop flight from America to the European mainland, and the first to carry a passenger. From "Time To Remember - Fast And Far in the Twenties", 1927 (Reel 3); a look at the obsession with speed and travel during the late 1920s.