Editing Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra (section)

===Record-breaking flights===
In May 1938, a team of aviators of the Polish airline [[LOT Polish Airlines|LOT]], made up of Wacław Makowski, director of LOT and first pilot, Zbigniew Wysiekierski, second pilot, Szymon Piskorz, mechanic and radionavigator, Alfons Rzeczewski, radio-navigator and Jerzy Krassowski, assistant, accomplished an experimental flight from the United States to Poland. This flight was carried out on board one of the aircraft bought by LOT, manufactured by Lockheed in California, a Lockheed Model 14H Super Electra (of which the Polish registration was SP-LMK.<ref>Coates, Ed. [http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac5/ROW%20Europe/SP-LMK.html "SP-LMK  Lockheed 14-H."] ''edcoatescollection.com''. Retrieved: February 19, 2010.</ref>). The crew took off from Burbank (Los Angeles) where these aircraft were manufactured, and after a tour of South America, flew the Atlantic from Brazil to West Africa en route to Warsaw. A poster celebrating the flight can be seen in a US Library of Congress/Matson Archive photo of the LOT/Imperial Airways Sales office in Jerusalem about 1939.<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/2442043468/sizes/o/ "LOT Poster Historic Flight."] ''flickr.com''. Retrieved: March 1, 2010.</ref>

The distance covered was of {{convert|15,441|mi|km nmi|abbr=on}}. They flew via the cities of Mazatlan, Mexico City, Guatemala, and Panama, then via the South American cities of Lima, Peru; Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Rio de Janeiro and [[Natal, Rio Grande do Norte|Natal]] in Brazil. They flew across the South Atlantic to Dakar, Senegal, in Africa and then to Casablanca, Tunis, and then on to Rome, Italy. The final leg of the flight brought them to Warsaw, Poland. The flying time was 85 hours between 13 May and 5 June. The overflight of the Atlantic - from Natal to Dakar - lasted 11 hours and 10 minutes (1,908&nbsp;mi/3,070&nbsp;km).<ref>''Po wielkim locie doświadczalnym P.L.L. "Lot"''. "Skrzydlata Polska" June-July 1938, nr. 6-7/1938 (164-165), p.172-173 {{in lang|pl}}</ref> This feat by Polish aviators marked the history of air communication on a world level. (Prior to this flight airliners were delivered across the Atlantic as deck cargo on ships <ref>[http://pallas.cegesoma.be/pls/opac/opac.search?lan=F&seop=6&sele=51&sepa=12&doty=___&sest=aeronautique--pologne&chna=&senu=68503&rqdb=1&dbnu=1 "Aviation en Pologne: (1934-1938)."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220121342/http://pallas.cegesoma.be/pls/opac/opac.search?lan=F&seop=6&sele=51&sepa=12&doty=___&sest=aeronautique--pologne&chna=&senu=68503&rqdb=1&dbnu=1 |date=2012-02-20 }} ''pallas.cegesoma.be''. Retrieved: February 19, 2010.</ref>).

[[Howard Hughes]] flew a Super Electra (NX18973) on a global [[circumnavigation]] flight. With four crewmates (Harry Connor, copilot; Tom Thurlow, navigator; Richard Stoddart, engineer; and Ed Lund, mechanic), the Lockheed 14 took off from [[Floyd Bennett Field]] in New York on July 10, 1938. The flight, which circled the narrower northern latitudes, passed through [[Paris]], [[Moscow]], [[Omsk]], [[Yakutsk]], [[Fairbanks, Alaska]] and [[Minneapolis]] before returning to New York.<ref name="Noah">{{cite book |last1=Dietrich |first1=Noah |last2=Thomas |first2=Bob |title=Howard, The Amazing Mr. Hughes |date=1972 |publisher=Fawcett Publications, Inc. |location=Greenwich |pages=136–139}}</ref><ref name="life19380725">[https://books.google.com/books?id=n08EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA9 "A Rich Young Texan with a Poet's Face Gets Hero's Welcome on World Flight."] ''Life '', July 25, 1938, pp. 9–11, 14. Retrieved: October 14, 2012.</ref> The total distance flown was 14,672&nbsp;mi (23,612&nbsp;km) and total time was 3 days, 19 hours, 17 minutes.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}