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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 ...
Retains record for circumnavigation using only scheduled transportation. [25] Air France: 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds 12 October 1992 13 October 1992 Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [26] [27] [28] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds 15 August 1995
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.
Nellie Bly traveled around the world with public steamboats and trains in 72 days (from 14 November 1889, to 25 January 1890), a world record, resembling the Around the World in Eighty Days novel. Clärenore Stinnes and Carl-Axel Söderström were the first persons to drive around the world in a car between 25 May 1927 and 24 June 1929.
In 1929, that same pioneering spirit drove a couple of Fort Worth flyers, Reg Robinson and James Kelly, to set a world endurance record for time in the air: 172 hours, 32 minutes. Take that ...
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.