sentences:  The crew warded off boredom by reading, playing cards, sleeping in bunks mounted over the fuel tanks, and writing letters.After the existing endurance record was surpassed on Thursday evening, January 3, the support crew sent up cheese, figs, olives and five jars of caviar for an in-flight celebration.During a refueling, Spaatz was drenched with fuel when turbulence caused the hose to pull out of the receptacle.