Field to Ballinrobe, Ireland. He was supposed to go to Lithuania. April 21, 1936 – Howard Hughes flew a Northrop Gamma, powered by a Wright Cyclone engine, from Miami to Bennett Field in 4:21:32, establishing an intercity speed record. September 2–3, 1936 – Harry Richman and Richard T. Merrill flew an Airplane Development Vultee named Lady Peace, powered by a Wright Cyclone engine, from Bennett Field to Llwyncelny, Wales, in 18:38 hours on an attempted round-trip flight to London, England. October 6–7, 1936 – Kurt Bjorkvall flew a Bellanca Pacemaker, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine, in an attempted flight from Bennett Field to Stockholm, Sweden. His plane crashed into the sea near Ireland. October 28–30, 1936 – Captain James A. Mollison flew a Bellanca Flash, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine, from Bennett Field to Croydon Airport in London, England, not only making record time from Newfoundland, but was the first pilot to fly non-stop to London in 13:17 hours. December 14, 1936 – Major Alexander de Seversky flew a Seversky SEV-3, powered by a Wright Cyclone engine, from Bennett Field to Miami, Florida, establishing a new speed record of 5:46:30 hours. May 9–14, 1937 – On May 9–10, 1937, Richard T. Merrill flew a Lockheed Model 10 Electra, powered by two Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines, from Bennett Field to Croyden Airport in London, England, with a stop in Essex, in 20:59 hours. On May 13–14, Merrill and John S. Lambie flew the plane back from London to Bennett Field via Massachusetts, carrying photos of George VI's coronation, in 24:22:25 hours. August 10–14, 1938 – On August 10, Alfred Henke, Rudolph von Moreau, Paul Dierberg, and Walter Kober, flew a prototype Focke-Wulf Fw 200, named Brandenburg and powered by four Pratt and Whitney Hornet engines, non-stop from Berlin, Germany. They arrived in Bennett Field on August 11 in a record time of 24:50:12 hours. On August 13, the aviators flew the same Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor non-stop from Bennett Field, arriving to Berlin on August 14 in a record time of 19:55:01 hours, cutting the previous record of Wiley Post by 5:50 hours. May 24, 1939 – Mexico City to Bennett Field flight. Francisco Sarabia flew a Gee Bee Racer from Mexico City to Bennett Field in 10:45 hours, beating Amelia Earhart's record flight time of 14:19 hours set on May 8, 1935. Sarabia