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Fly Around the World: Pedro Zanni World attempt
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. Pedro Zanni World attempt. Major Pedro Zanni and mechanic Felipe Beltrame left Amsterdam, Holland on July 22, 1924. They were flying a Fokker C-IV biplane on a flight round-the-world. On August 19, 1924 they crashed the "City of Buenos Aires" on take-off at Hanoi in French Indo- China. This after having flown 7,727 miles in 85 Hrs 25 Min. Role: Two-seat reconnaissance aircraft. I ded...
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Fly Around the World: Focke-Wulf fly non-stop Berlin to New York
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. Focke-Wulf fly non-stop Berlin to New York. Focke-Wulf 200 Condor in New York, 1938. On August 10-11, 1938, a Focke-Wulf 200 Condor airliner made a nonstop trans- atlantic flight from Berlin to Floyd Bennett field in Brooklyn, New York. Source: Wikipedia / airliners.net. Back to Main Page. Labels: Focke-Wulf fly non-stop Berlin to New York. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In 1998...
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Fly Around the World: Hutchinsons World attempt
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. George R. Hutchinson (February 11, 1902 - August 21, 1989) was an American aviator. The Flying Hutchinsons - The 'Flying Family. In 1931, George, Blanche and daughters Kathryn and Janet Hutchinson became nationwide celebrities as the Flying Hutchinsons. They visited the capitals of all 48 United States by air. Labels: Hutchinsons World attempt. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Fly Around the World: Archbold World Flight
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. The third and most ambitious Archbold expedition to New Guinea took place from April 1938 to May 1939 in Netherlands New Guinea, concentrating on the north slope of the Snow Mountains, from Mt Wilhelmina to the Idenburg River (a tributary of the Mamberamo River), making collections at altitudes from near sea-level to over 4,000 m at the upper limit of vegetation. Fly Around the World!
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Fly Around the World: Pan American to San Francisco to Manila
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. Pan American to San Francisco to Manila. On November 22, 1935 Pan American Airways began carrying mail across the Pacific from San Francisco to Manila, Philippines with its newly acquired Martin M-130 flying boat. Pan American decided to expand this transpacific mail service to passenger carrying service on October 21, 1936. Labels: Pan American to San Francisco to Manila. Nort Pole ...
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Fly Around the World: Joe Crosson World flight
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. Joe Crosson World flight. Joseph E. "Joe" Crosson (1903–1949). Joe Crosson piloted a Pacific Alaska Airways Fairchild 71 float-plane with several passengers on a survey flight linking North America and Asia. The flight continued westward round-the-world finally returning to Nome AK after November 30, 1934. Fairbanks AK - 1934.09.01. Nome AK - 1934.09.01. New York, NY. In the research...
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Fly Around the World: Post and Gatty World Flight
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. Post and Gatty World Flight. Wiley Post with Gatty in Germany, 1931 (Wikipedia). 193106.23 - 1931.07.01. In 1930 the record for Flying around the world was not held by a fixed-wing aircraft, but by the Graf Zeppelin, piloted by Hugo Eckener in 1929 with a time of 21 days. On June 23, 1931, Post and his navigator Harold Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York.
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Fly Around the World: Solar-powered plane to fly around the world
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. Solar-powered plane to fly around the world. The Swiss-made solar-powered aircraft, Solar Impulse 2, took off from Abu Dhabi on Monday morning 2015.03.09 on a 35,000-kilometer (21,700-mile) long journey in a historic attempt to fly around the world without fossil fuel. The single-seat aircraft will be flown by two pilots, André Borschberg and Solar Impulse co-founder Bertrand Piccard.
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Fly Around the World: Lockheed P2V-1 from Perth to Ohio
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. Lockheed P2V-1 from Perth to Ohio. P2V-1 "The Turtle" in 1946. In 1946 a Lockheed P2V-1 flew from Perth in Australia to Ohio in the United States. The aircraft was nicknamed "The Turtle". The purposes of the flight was to test crew endurance and long-range navigation. But the flight also had publicity purposes, to display the capabilities of the Navy's latest patrol bomber. Labels: L...
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Fly Around the World: Boeing 747SP
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Fly Around the World. Flying Around the World - Making a dream come true. Followin in the footsteps of the great aviators. There were 3 significant commercial around-the-world record-setting flights flown by 747SP. Two operated by Pan Am and the other operated by United Airlines with the aircraft being "loaned" to Friendship Foundation. In order to raise money for the foundation). The round-the-world flight took 46 hours and 26 minutes over 23,137 miles. Pan Am Flight 50. 3 stopovers at London-Heathrow A...
