Dr. Light became famous among aviation enthusiasts due to his 1934 around-the-world flight.
When done, he hopes to repeat the around-the-world flight.
They remembered working around-the-world flights, leaving their home bases for weeks at a time and flying to exotic cities on every continent.
Smith had planned an around-the-world flight in 1922, but abandoned it after his brother Ross was killed during a test flight.
Dr. Light was well known among flying enthusiasts for his 1934 around-the-world flight and wanted to approximate the same to celebrate their marriage.
The C-124s continued across the Pacific to their home base, making the airlift an around-the-world flight.
In 1941 he commanded an around-the-world flight of 24,600 miles that set a record of 121 hours and 55 minutes.
He pulled out a white shirt that had gotten wrinkled in the around-the-world flight, and put it on with his gray suit pants.
It flew over one million miles, including an around-the-world flight in August 1929.
Hughes' around-the-world flights made real the idea of global air travel.