One notable record set by a Wright J-6 Whirlwind-powered aircraft occurred on July 28–30, 1931, when Russell Norton Boardman (age 33) and John Louis Polando (age 29) flew from Floyd Bennett Field, usually abbreviated as "FBF" — a famous New York City-area early airport on western Long Island from which many record flights originated — to Istanbul, Turkey aboard a Bellanca Special J-300 high-wing monoplane named Cape Cod, registration NR761W, making it safely to Istanbul nonstop in 49:20 hours, establishing a distance record of 5,011.8 miles (8,065.7 km), the first known nonstop record flight in aviation history whose distance surpassed either English (5,000 mi) or metric (8,000 km) mark. As the runway at FBF was just 5,000 feet (1,500 m) long, Boardman and Polando needed to have a fence removed and clear a parking lot to add another thousand feet to meet their required takeoff distance. The phone and electric utilities even took down poles along Flatbush Avenue.[10]