In 1937, Moscow was holding an event to celebrate the launch of a new bomber plane. Stalin did something different, inviting Western media to come and see the event. Russian pilot Sigizmund Levanevsky got into the cockpit, fired up the engine, and took off, to the delight of the people watching. He flew east toward Alaska and was never seen again. The wreckage was never found though some think he crashed along the Alaskan coast.