American pilot Charles Lindbergh made the first non-stop transatlantic solo flight in 1927. His all-metal Ryan monoplane, called Spirit of St Louis, was built specially for the job. The flight took 33 hours and 30 minutes. Lindbergh tried to stay awake all the time to avoid crashing into the sea.
Amazing! US Navy airman Richard E Byrd was the first man to fly over both the North Pole and the South Pole. He reached the North Pole in May 1926 as navigator in a Fokker F. VIIA and the South Pole in November 1929 as commander of a Ford tri-motor.
Who was first to fly across the Pacific?
In 1928, Australians Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and their navigators made the first flight from America to Australia in a Fokker tri-motor. They refueled four times on Pacific islands.
Is it true? The first solo aeroplane flight around the world took nearly eight days.
Yes. The first round-the-world solo flight was made between 15 and 22 July, 1933. Total flying time was 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes for the 25,099 kilometres. The pilot was an American called Wiley Post, and his aircraft was a Lockheed Vega.
Which woman flew solo from England to Australia?
English pilot Amy Johnson made the first solo England-Australia flight by a woman, in a Gypsy Moth biplane in 1930. She had many near disasters on the way, including almost flying into a mountain side.
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