Year | Name | Nationality | Place | Cause | Comment |
1908 | Zeppelin Z1 | German | Stuttgart | Emergency landing | No one killed |
1909 | République | French | Moulines | Lost the propeller | All 4 killed |
1910 | Zeppelin Z2 | German | Limburg | Emergency landing | No one killed |
1910 | Zeppelin Z4 | German | Teutuburgerwald | Emergency landing | No one killed |
1912 | Akron | American | Atlantic City | Explosion | All 5 killed |
1913 | Zeppelin L1 | German | Helgoland | Emergency landing | 15 of 22 killed |
1913 | Zeppelin L2 | German | Johannisthal | Explosion | All 28 killed |
1919 | NS II | British | North Sea | Emergency landing | All 14 drowned |
1921 | R 38 | British | The river Humber | Explosion | 44 of 49 killed |
1923 | Dixmuide | French | Mediterranean | Explosion | 26killed |
1925 | Shenandoah | American | Ohio | Lost without a trace | 15 lost |
1928 | Italia | Italian | North-east of Svalbard | Torn apart in a storm | 9 menn left on the ice as the zeppelin disappeared with 6 men |
1930 | R 101 | British | France, on the way to India | Went down | 46 of 54 killed |
1933 | Akron | American | East coast of America | Went down in a storm | 77 of 81 killed |
1935 | Macon | American | The Pacific ocean near San Francisco |
Went down in a storm | 2 of 83 killed |
1937 | Hindenburg | German | Lakenhurst | Explosion | All killed |
Year/Date | Pilot’s name & nationality |
Speed km p hr/ Miles p hr |
Type of aeroplane | Place & comments |
December 12. 1906 |
Santos Dumont.
French |
41,292/ 25,658 |
Aeroplan M-14 | Bagatelle, France |
October 26. 1907 |
Farman,
British |
52,700/ 32,746 |
Voicin | |
August 28. 1909 |
Louise Blériot,
French |
76,955/ 47,818 |
Blériot | Reims, France |
1910 |
Leblanche,
French |
119,700/ 74,378 |
Blériot 100 hp. |
Pau, France |
June 1911 |
Leblanche,
French |
125/ 77,671 |
Blériot 100 hp. |
|
1912 |
Vedrines,
French |
174,100/ 108,181 |
Deperdussin | Chicago, USA |
1913 |
Prevost,
French |
203,850/ 126,667 |
Deperdussin | |
December 12. 1920 |
Sadi-Lecointe,
French |
313,043/ 194,516 |
Nieuport Fighter |
Villacoublay, France |
September 26. 1921 |
Sadi-Lecointe,
French |
330,275/ 205,223 |
Nieuport Fighter |
Villacoublay, France |
October 13. 1922 |
B.G. Mitchell,
American |
358,830/ 222,967 |
Curtis Fighter | Detroit, USA |
February 15. 1923 |
Sadi-Lecointe,
France |
375,132/ 233,096 |
Nieuport with 400 hp. Hispano-Suiza engine |
Istres, France |
November 2. 1923 |
Brow,
American |
417,059/ 259,148 |
Navy-Curtis | |
November 4. 1923 |
A.J. Williams,
American |
429,025/ 266,584 |
Curtis fighter | |
December 11. 1924 |
Bonnet,
French |
461/ 286,452 |
Bernard-Ferbois with Hispano-Suiza engine |
First time a sea plane holds the record |
1927 |
Kinkead,
British |
465,4/ 289,186 |
Napier IVb biplane |
|
March 30. 1928 |
Bernardi,
Italian |
512,776/ 318,624 |
Macchi, sea plane |
|
September 1929 |
Orlebar,
British |
575,200/ 357,413 |
S-6 sea plane |
|
1931 |
Stainforth,
British |
625/ 388,357 |
S-6b sea plane |
Lec-on-Solent, Great Britain |
September 29 1931 |
Stainforth,
British |
655,302/ 407,186 |
S-6b sea plane |
Lec-on-Solent, Great Britain |
1932 |
Jimmie Doolittle,
American |
473,820/ 294,418 |
Cleveland, USA. |
|
April 1933 |
Francesco Agello,
Italian |
693/ 430,61 |
Macchi sea plane with two Fiat engines totaling 2500 hp. |
Lake Garda |
September 1933 |
James R. Wedell,
American |
490,078/ 304,52 |
Wedell-Williams with Pratt & Whitney engine | Chicago, USA |
October 23. 1934 |
Francesco Agello,
Italian |
709,209/ 440,682 |
Macchi sea plane |
Lake Garda. The last sae plane to hold the record |
October 23. 1934 |
Howard Hughes, American |
567,115/ 352,389 |
Self build plane | |
September 13. 1935 |
Hermann Wurster,
German |
610,950/ 379,627 |
Messersmitt 109 |
Augsburg, Bawaria, Germany |
November 11. 1937 |
Dieterle,
German |
746,660/ 463,953 |
Heinkel HE 112 U |
|
March 3. 1939 |
Fritz Wendel,
German |
755,138/ 469,221 |
Messersmitt ME109 R with a 1175 hp. Daimler-Benz engine |
Augsburg, Bawaria, Germany |
November 7. 1945 |
Hugh Joseph Wilson,
British |
975,675/ 606,256 |
Reaction plane Gloster Meteor IV called "Britannia" |
Herne Bay, Great Britain |
September 3. 1946 |
Edward Donaldson,
British |
991/ 615,779 |
Gloster Meteor IV | Herne Bay, Great Britain |
June 1947 |
Albert Boyd,
American |
1003,50/ 623,546 |
Lockheed P-80 R |
|
October 25. 1947 |
Marion E. Carl,
American |
1047,536/ 650,886 |
Douglas D-558 |
|
September 15. 1948 |
Richard L. Johnson,
American |
1079,841/ 670,982 |
North American F-86 |
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