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26 | 38 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:13:00 | Aircraft Type Sopwith Pup | FIRST: landing by an airplane on a moving ship by Edwin Dunning in a Sopwith Pup, landed on HMS Furious on August 2, 1917. | ||
27 | 39 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:14:00 | Aircraft Type Voisin III | FIRST: aircraft to shoot down another aircraft: a French Voisin III, piloted by Sergeant Joseph Frantz and Corporal Louis Quénault, engaged a German Aviatik B.II near Rheims on October 5, 1914. | ||
28 | 40 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:15:00 | Airline St. Petersburg - Tampa Airboat Line | FIRST: scheduled airline using a winged aircraft was SPT Airboat Line, providing service between St. Petersburg and neighboring Tampa across Tampa Bay in 1914. | ||
29 | 41 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:16:00 | Aircraft Type Nieuport IV | FIRST: pilot to fly a loop was Pyotr Nesterov in a Nieuport IV, on September 9, 1913. | ||
30 | 42 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:17:00 |
Aircraft Type Blériot XI Aviator Blériot |
FIRST: airplane flight across the English Channel by Louis Blériot on July 25, 1909. | ||
31 | 43 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:18:00 |
Aircraft Type Santos-Dumont 14-bis Aviator Santos-Dumont |
FIRST: officially recognized airspeed record set by Alberto Santos-Dumont with his 14-bis with an airspeed of 41 km/h on 12 November, 1906. | ||
32 | 44 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:19:00 |
Aircraft Type Wright Flyer I Aviator Wright |
FIRST: successful powered aircraft. Wright brothers first flew it near Kitty Hawk, USA, on December 17, 1903. | ||
33 | 45 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:20:00 | Aircraft Type Cessna 172 Skyhawk | TOP: More Cessna 172s have been built than any other aircraft. | ||
34 | 46 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:21:00 | Aircraft Type Airbus A380 | TOP: Airbus A-380 is the largest passenger airliner in the world. | ||
35 | 47 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:22:00 | Aircraft Type Antonov An-225 Mriya | TOP: Antonov An-225 is the largest airplane in the world; the heaviest aircraft with a gross weight of 640 tonnes and the biggest heavier-than-air aircraft in terms of length and wingspan in operational service. | ||
36 | 48 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:23:00 | Aircraft Type Mil Mi-26 | TOP: Mil Mi-26 is the heaviest (56 tonnes), largest and most powerful helicopter in production ever. | ||
37 | 49 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:24:00 | Aircraft Type Tupolev Tu-160 | TOP: Tupolev Tu-160 is the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep aircraft built. | ||
38 | 50 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:25:00 | Aircraft Type Dornier Do X | TOP: Dornier Do X was the aircraft with the most number of engines (12). | ||
39 | 51 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:26:00 | Aircraft Type Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird | TOP: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird holds the official Air Speed Record for a manned airbreathing jet aircraft with a speed of 3530 km/h, set on 28 July 1976. | ||
40 | 52 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:27:00 | Aircraft Type Tupolev Tu-114 | TOP: Tupolev Tu.114 is the fastest-ever record speed for a propeller-driven aircraft of any type, achieved 871 km/h on 24 March 1960. | ||
41 | 53 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:28:00 | Aircraft Type Grumman F8F Bearcat | TOP: Fastest straight-line piston-engined aircraft is a modified F8F Bearcat called Rare Bear, flew at 850 km/s on 21 August 1989. | ||
42 | 54 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:29:00 | Aircraft Type AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat | TOP: Westland Lynx is the fastest helicopter, achieved 400 km/h on 11 August 1986. | ||
43 | 55 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:30:00 | Aircraft Type Schempp-Hirth Nimbus /2/3/4 | TOP: Gliding flight distance record is 3008 km, set by Klaus Ohlmann and Karl Rabeder with Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4 on January 21, 2003 with a flight time of 15h 8m giving an average speed of 200 km/h. | ||
44 | 56 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:31:00 | Aircraft Type Boeing 777-200 | TOP: Flight distance record by a commercial aircraft set by a Boeing 777-200LR, flew 21602km on November 9, 2005. | ||
45 | 57 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:32:00 |
Aircraft Type Glaser-Dirks DG-500 Aviator Fossett |
TOP: Gliding flight altitude record is 15460 m, set by Steve Fossett and Einar Enevoldson with a modified Glaser-Dirks DG-505M on 29 August 2006. | ||
46 | 58 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:33:00 | Airport Qamdo Bamda Airport (ZUBD) | TOP: Qamdo Bamda Airport has the longest publicly used runway in the world, at 5500m. It is the second highest airport in the world. | ||
47 | 59 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:34:00 | Airport Bar Yehuda Airfield (LLMZ) | TOP: Located at 1,240 ft (378 m) below mean sea level, Bar Yehuda Airfield is the lowest airport in the world. | ||
48 | 60 | bali | 2016-01-03 10:35:00 | Airport Daocheng Yading Airport (ZUDC) | TOP: At 4,411 m (14,472 ft) above sea level, Daocheng Yading is the world's highest civilian airport | ||
49 | 61 | bali | 2016-03-13 10:00:00 | Aircraft Type Hughes H-4 Hercules | TOP: Hughes H-4 Hercules ("Spruce Goose") was the largest flying boat ever built and had the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history. | ||
50 | 63 | bali | 2016-11-11 14:55:38 | Airport Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (KDVT) | TOP: Phoenix Deer Valley Airport is the busiest General Aviation airport in the world with 368,747 aircraft movements in 2015. | ||
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