Newsmen Surrounding Loren Mendell and R.B. Reinhart

(Original Caption) Set New Endurance Record for Any Type of Aircraft. Culver City, California: By staying aloft in the Angeleno for 246 hours and 43 minutes Loren Mendell and R.B. Reinhart set a new endurance record for any type of aircraft. Photo shows at the end of the flight when they stepped out of the plane. Loren Mendell, left, and R.B. Reinhart, right, to the lower right, foreground, (with beards). Their plane may be seen in the background. (Photo by © Bettmann/CORBIS/Bettmann Archive)