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1 26 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:01:00 [I] Aircraft Type Scaled Composites 311 Global Flyer
[I] Aviator Fossett
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.
2 27 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:02:00 [I] Aircraft Type Rutan 76 Voyager FIRST: non-stop, un-refueled fixed-wing aircraft flight around the Earth by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager on December 14-23, 1986.
3 28 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:03:00 [I] Aircraft Type Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde 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.
4 29 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:04:00 [I] Aircraft Type Boeing B-50 Superfortress
[I] Airport Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth (KNFW)
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.
5 30 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:05:00 [I] Aircraft Type Bell X-1
[I] Aviator Yeager
FIRST: human to break the sound barrier in level flight was Chuck Yeager in a Bell X-1 on October 14, 1947.
6 31 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:06:00 [I] Aircraft Type Arado Ar 234 Blitz FIRST: The Arado Ar 234 was the world's first operational jet-powered bomber, first flying on 15 June 1943.
7 32 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:07:00 [I] Aircraft Type Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe / Sturmvogel FIRST: Messerschmitt Me 262 was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, with first flight (with jet engines) on 18 July, 1942.
8 33 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:08:00 [I] Aircraft Type Heinkel He 178 FIRST: flight by a turbojet-powered aircraft was a Heinkel He 178, piloted by Erich Warsitz, on August 27, 1939.
9 34 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:09:00 [I] Aircraft Type Lockheed Vega
[I] Aviator Earhart
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.
10 35 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:10:00 [I] Aircraft Type Ryan NYP Spirit of St. Louis
[I] Aviator Lindbergh
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.
11 36 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:11:00 [I] Aircraft Type Airco DH.4 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.
12 37 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:12:00 [I] Aircraft Type Vickers Vimy
[I] Aviator Alcock
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.
13 38 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:13:00 [I] 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.
14 39 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:14:00 [I] 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.
15 40 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:15:00 [I] 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.
16 41 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:16:00 [I] Aircraft Type Nieuport IV FIRST: pilot to fly a loop was Pyotr Nesterov in a Nieuport IV, on September 9, 1913.
17 42 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:17:00 [I] Aircraft Type Blériot XI
[I] Aviator Blériot
FIRST: airplane flight across the English Channel by Louis Blériot on July 25, 1909.
18 43 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:18:00 [I] Aircraft Type Santos-Dumont 14-bis
[I] 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.
19 44 [I] bali 2016-01-03 10:19:00 [I] Aircraft Type Wright Flyer I
[I] Aviator Wright
FIRST: successful powered aircraft. Wright brothers first flew it near Kitty Hawk, USA, on December 17, 1903.