Test Pilot Valery Pavlovich Chkalov wearing a wreath of white roses during a presentation and press conference in Portland, Oregon, after his record flight on the Russian ANT-25 aircraft for the first non-stop flight from Moscow through North Pole to the United States of America (Oregon). Chkalov teamed up with pilots Georgui Baidukov and Alexandre Beliakov for the record flight. June 1937 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies