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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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1920 | 4 American military planes | Long Island – Nome |
14480 km/ 8997 miles |
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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 |
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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 |
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