 The two primary aircraft continued on through the Strait of Gibraltar, across the Mediterranean Sea, over the Indian Ocean, north over the Pacific Ocean to the Aleutian Islands, then southeast to the west coast of the United States, and thence to a landing at Dyess.En route, the aircraft dropped practice bombs on Italy's Pachino Range, the Torishima Range near Japan's Kadena Air Base, and the Utah Test and Training Range.The flight took 36 hours and 13 minutes, including six air refuelings, making for an average speed of .