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2. Round-the-world ticket - Wikipedia

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   Round-the-world tickets are priced according to travel class, origin of travel, number of continents, mileage (usually between 30,000 and 60,000 km), and sometimes season of travel. [3] The traveller benefits from the large and optimized network of the airline alliance and can often participate in the alliance's frequent flyer programs ...

3. Spirit of Texas - Wikipedia

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   The flight consisted of 246.5 hours of flight time at an average ground speed of 117 mph. It set a FAI world record for round the world flight time in a helicopter, averaging 35.4 mph. [6] Fog necessitated flying as low as 10 feet to follow roads. There were two incidents in India and Burma of being cited for unauthorized landings.

4. André Borschberg - Wikipedia

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   On July 7th, 2010, he completed the first 24-hour solar-powered flight, setting the records for the longest manned solar-powered flight and the greatest height reached by a solar aircraft. [5] During the Japan -to- Hawaii leg of the flight, Borschberg flew non-stop for 117 hours and 52 minutes, breaking Steve Fossett ’s 2006 world record for ...

5. Solar airship targets first non-stop round-the-world flight ...

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6. Dick Rutan, who set an aviation milestone when he flew ... - AOL

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   Nine days and three minutes later, Dick, along with copilot Jeana Yeager, completed one of the greatest milestones in aviation history: the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling.

7. Nippon (aircraft) - Wikipedia

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   The round the World flight [ edit ] Nippon took off from Haneda airport [ 2 ] in the district of Kamata in Tokyo on 25 August 1939, flew around the globe and returned to Tokyo, after 55 days, on 20 October 1939 having flown 52,886 km (32,862 mi; 28,556 nmi) in 194 flying hours.