Success

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This file appears in: Taking Flight: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

Disheveled and exhausted, aviator Nick Mamer (center) was beaming after his and Art Walker's successful five day flight of the Spokane Sun-God.

Image L87-1.40203-29 courtesy of the Museum of Art and Culture

This file appears in: Taking Flight: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

By The Spokane Historical team
In 1929, aviator Nick Mamer and mechanic Art Walker held the Spokane Sun-God aloft for five days and nights - America's first nonstop, round-trip transcontinental flight. Refueling in the air was the…