Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas
Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas - pilots. Made a significant flight in the history of world's aviation. On 15th July, 1933, they flew over the Atlantic Ocean, covering a distance of 3984 miles (6411 kilometres) without any landing in 37 hours, 11 minutes.
As far as the distance of non-stop flights was concerned, their result ranked second after that of R.Boardman and J.Polan, and it ranked fourth in terms of duration of being in the sky at the time.
Though Darius and Girenas had no navigation equipment and flew under unfavourable weather conditions, the flight made by the airmen was one of the most precise in all aviation history at that time and it equalled Charles Lindbergh's classic flight. You can see portraits of Darius and Girenas on 10 litas note.
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