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The British had made one unsuccessful around-the-world air flight attempt in 1922. The following year, a French team had tried; the Italians, Portuguese, and British also announced plans for world-circling flights. [2] In early 1923, the US Army Air Service became interested in having a squadron of military aircraft undertake a round-the-world ...
April 24 – French Captain Georges Pelletier d'Oisy and Adjutant Lucien Besin depart Paris eastbound in a Breguet 19.A.2, beginning an attempt to fly around the world. They will be forced to end their attempt in May in Shanghai. [10] April 26 – Imperial Airways makes its first scheduled flight, from Croydon Aerodrome to Paris, using a de ...
The prototype Douglas World Cruiser seaplane (s/n 23-1210). It was substituted for DWC Boston (23-1231) late on in the round-the-world trip. "P318" on the tail is the Wright Field test number. (circa 1924) Douglas World Cruiser Chicago at the Barron Hilton Pioneers of Flight Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
Archibald Stuart Charles Stuart-MacLaren was an early British aviator who led the British attempt to win the race between nations to make the first aerial circumnavigation of the globe in 1924. Stuart-MacLaren received his Aviator’s Certificate (No. 1310) from The Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom on 4 June 1915.
Deals. Gifting. Health. Home. ... plans to commemorate the 100th anniversary of an historic around-the-world flight starting Thursday and finishing April 6. ... 1924, from Seattle and flew ...
Solar Impulse the first round-the-world solar flight in history. [35] United States Army Air Service, Lowell H. Smith and Leslie P. Arnold, and Erik H. Nelson and John Harding Jr. 175 calendar days, and covered 26,345 miles (42,398 km) 17 March 1924 28 September 1924
First nonstop around-the-world flight: Starting on February 26, Capt. James Gallagher and his crew refuelled inflight four times in Boeing B-50A Superfortress Lucky Lady II while flying around the world, to return to where they started at Carswell AFB in Texas on March 2, 1949.
Frederick Leroy Martin (November 22, 1882 – February 23, 1954) was an American airman best known as the first commander of the US Army Air Service's first aerial circumnavigation of the world in 1924 and as the commander of US Army Air Forces during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.