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FIRST: solo non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight around the Earth by Steve Fossett on a Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, between February 28 and March 3, 2005. | ||
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FIRST: non-stop, un-refueled fixed-wing aircraft flight around the Earth by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager on December 14-23, 1986. | ||
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FIRST: supersonic scheduled passenger flight by Concorde, two simultaneous maiden flights from London to Bahrain and from Paris to Rio de Janeiro on January 21, 1976. | ||
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FIRST: nonstop around-the-world flight by B-50A Superfortress Lucky Lady II, commanded by Capt. James Gallagher, flew around the world from 26 February to 2 March 1949, taking off and landing at Carswell AFB, Texas. | ||
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FIRST: human to break the sound barrier in level flight was Chuck Yeager in a Bell X-1 on October 14, 1947. | ||
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FIRST: The Arado Ar 234 was the world's first operational jet-powered bomber, first flying on 15 June 1943. | ||
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FIRST: Messerschmitt Me 262 was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, with first flight (with jet engines) on 18 July, 1942. | ||
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FIRST: flight by a turbojet-powered aircraft was a Heinkel He 178, piloted by Erich Warsitz, on August 27, 1939. | ||
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FIRST: female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was Amelia Earhart, in a Lockheed Vega 5B, flew from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Culmore, Ireland, on May 20, 1932. | ||
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FIRST: solo non-stop transatlantic flight by Charles Lindbergh, flying the Spirit of St. Louis, made the 33-hour journey from New York to Paris on May 20-21, 1927. | ||
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FIRST: aerial refueling by an Airco DH.4B biplane of the United States Army Air Service, refuelled another DH.4B in mid-air on June 27, 1923. | ||
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FIRST: non-stop transatlantic flight by Alcock and Brown on a modified Vickers Vimy from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland, on June 14-15, 1919. | ||
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FIRST: landing by an airplane on a moving ship by Edwin Dunning in a Sopwith Pup, landed on HMS Furious on August 2, 1917. | ||
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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. | ||
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FIRST: scheduled airline using a winged aircraft was SPT Airboat Line, providing service between St. Petersburg and neighboring Tampa across Tampa Bay in 1914. | ||
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FIRST: pilot to fly a loop was Pyotr Nesterov in a Nieuport IV, on September 9, 1913. | ||
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FIRST: airplane flight across the English Channel by Louis Blériot on July 25, 1909. | ||
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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. | ||
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FIRST: successful powered aircraft. Wright brothers first flew it near Kitty Hawk, USA, on December 17, 1903. | ||