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  2. Stits DS-1 - Wikipedia

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    The Stits DS-1 Baby Bird is a homebuilt aircraft built to achieve a "world's smallest" status. The Baby Bird is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Smallest Airplane in the World.” as of 1984. The title was later defined as "world's smallest monoplane" to acknowledge Robert H. Starr's Bumble Bee II as the world's smallest biplane. [1]

  3. List of firsts in aviation - Wikipedia

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    First manned Jetpack flights: Engineer Wendell Moore made the first flight at Bell Laboratories in February 1961. [ 239 ] First supersonic flight by an airliner : was made by William Magruder in a dive from altitude with a Douglas DC-8 -43, briefly reaching a speed of Mach 1.012 at 574 kn (661 mph; 1,063 km/h) at 41,088 ft (12,524 m) during a ...

  4. List of aviation pioneers - Wikipedia

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    First transpacific flight from the United States to Australia in the Southern Cross (31 May – 9 Jun 1928); [174] [nb 31] first non-stop Australian transcontinental flight (Aug 1928); [175] first trans-Tasman flight (10/11 Sep 1928); [175] († disappeared) Lady Southern Cross, over the Bay of Bengal. [176] Sir Thomas Sopwith: 18 Jan 1888 27 ...

  5. Wright brothers - Wikipedia

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    The first flight, by Orville at 10:35 am, of 120 feet (37 m) in 12 seconds, at a speed of only 6.8 miles per hour (10.9 km/h) over the ground, was recorded in a famous photograph. [42] The next two flights covered approximately 175 and 200 feet (53 and 61 m), by Wilbur and Orville respectively.

  6. Wright Flyer - Wikipedia

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    The flight paths were all essentially straight; turns were not attempted. Each flight ended in a bumpy and unintended landing. The last flight, by Wilbur, covered 852 ft (260 m) in 59 seconds, much longer than each of the three previous flights of 120, 175 and 200 feet (37, 53 and 61 m) in 12, 12, and 15 seconds respectively.

  7. Claims to the first powered flight - Wikipedia

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    Then on 12 November a flight of 22.2 seconds carried the 14-bis some 220 m (720 ft), earning the Aéro-Club prize of 1,500 francs for the first flight of more than 100 m. [39] This flight was also observed by the newly formed Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and became the first record in their log book. [citation needed]

  8. Evelyn Bryan Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Evelyn Stone Bryan Johnson (November 4, 1909 – May 10, 2012), nicknamed "Mama Bird", was the world's oldest flight instructor, and -- at one point -- the pilot with the highest number of flying hours in the world, of any living pilot.

  9. History of aviation - Wikipedia

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    This well-documented event was the first flight verified by the Aéro-Club de France of a powered heavier-than-air machine in Europe and won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first officially observed flight greater than 25 m (82 ft). On 12 November 1906, Santos-Dumont set the first world record recognized by the Federation Aeronautique ...