Click on the link below for the best telling of this amazing feat of endurance.
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/aero/aved/museum/aviation_firsts/mississippi.html
More information on Ole Miss airplane at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Washington D.C. click on the link below.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/artifact.cfm?id=A19560041000