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He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
Robert Kinkead (June 1, 1952 – December 15, 2019), known as Bob, was an American chef and restaurateur based in Washington D.C. He was best known for his eponymous seafood restaurant Kinkead's , which operated from 1993 to 2012 and earned Kinkead the 1995 James Beard Award for best American chef in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Robert Garside is credited by Guinness World Records as the first person to run around the world from 20 October 1997 to 13 June 2003, taking 2,062 days to cover 30,000 mi (48,000 km) across 29 countries and 6 continents. [82] On 1 August 1999, Polly Letofsky left her home in Colorado on a five-year journey spanning four continents and 22 ...
First woman to fly for a major U.S. airline: Bonnie Tiburzi became the first female pilot for a major U.S. airline, American Airlines, in March 1973. First manned flight by an electrically powered aeroplane : was made with a Brditschka MB-E1 , a modified motor glider with an 8–10 kW (11–13 hp) Bosch KM77 electric motor on October 23, 1973.
Pinkney's voyage around the world lasted 22 months. He traveled approximately 27,000 miles (43,000 km). [11] He departed from Boston on August 5, 1990, sailing first to Bermuda, then along the eastern South American coastline, across the Atlantic Ocean to Cape Town, South Africa, across the Indian Ocean to Hobart, Tasmania, across the South Pacific Ocean, around Cape Horn, and up the eastern ...
Flay received a degree in culinary arts and was a member of the first graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984. After culinary school, he started working as a sous-chef, quickly learning the culinary arts. At the Brighton Grill on Third Avenue, Flay was handed the executive chef position a week after the executive chef was fired.
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Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream .