Aviation History – Famous First

Year	Name	Place/Strech	Distance	Time	Comment
1905	Wright	Kitty Hawk, North Carolina		12 sec	First flight
1908	Henri Farman	France	ca. 2 km/ 1.25 miles		First flight carrying a passenger
1909	Louis Blériot	Across the Channel	24 km/ 15 miles	37 min 21 sec	First flight across the channel
1912	R. C. Fowler	Florida – San Francisco	3590km/ 2230 miles
1914	Trygve Gran	Scotland – Norway	550 km/ 342 miles	4 hours 10 min	First flight across the North Sea
1917	German zeppelin LZ 59	Bulgaria – East Africa	6800 km/ 4 225 miles	4 days
1919	A. C. Read	Across the Atlantic via the Azores	6320 km/ 3 927 miles	15h 18m to the Azores, 9h 25m to Lisboa	First flight across the Atlantic
1919	Ross Smith	England – Australia	16000 km/ 9942 miles	27 days 20 hours
1920	Brand & Ryneveld	London – Kape Town	19300 km/ 11992 miles	4 january to 20 march	They changed planes twice
1920	Masiero & Ferrari	Rome – Tokio	13500 km/ 8 388 miles
1920	4 American military planes	Long Island – Nome	14480 km/ 8997 miles
1922	Scadusa & Coutinho	Lisboa – Rio	7500 km/ 4 660 miles	20 march to 17 June	They changed planes twice
1924	Smith & Nelson in American military planes	Around the world	44330 km/ 27545 miles	6 April to 28 October. 363 flight hours	4 planes started, 2 finished
1926	Byrd & Bennett	Svalbard – North Pole – Svalbard	2200 km/ 1367 miles	15 ½ hours	First flight over the North Pole
1926	Amundsen & Ellsworth	Svalbard – North Pole – Alaska	4350 km/ 2700 miles	46 hours 45 min	First zepelin over the North Pole
1927	Pinedo	Italia – S. America – N. America – Italy	41800 km/ 25 975 miles	13 March to 16 June
1928	Köhl, Hünefeld & Fitzmaurice	Irland – Greeny Island	3100 km/ 1926 miles	36½ hours	First flight across the Atlantic westwards
1928	Kingsford- Smith	Oakland – Brisbane via Honolulu – Fidji	12500 km/ 7767 miles	83 hours 35 min	First flight across the Pacific
1929	Byrd & Balchen	Little America in the Ross Sea – South Pole and back	2600 km/ 1243 miles	18 hours 41 min	First flight across the South Pole
1929	Dr H. Eckener in the zeppelin "Graf Zeppelin"	Around the world	37000 km/ 22 990 miles	20 days 4 hours. 300 flight hours	First zeppelin around the world