Aviation History–Dark Moments/Speed Records

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