Aviation History - March 2016 USA

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YEAR AIRCRAFT DISTANCE

1903 Wright Flyer 852 feet (third flight)

1914 Mercedes-Aviatik Pfeil 1,056 miles

1919 Vickers Vimy 1,889 miles

1927 Ryan NYP 3,609.5 miles

1929 Breguet 19 Super Bidon 3,669.3 miles

1937 Tupolev ANT-25 6,306 miles

1938 2 Vickers Wellesleys 7,182 miles

1946 Lockheed P2V-1 11,236.6 miles

1962 Boeing B-52H 12,532.3 miles

2006 Global Flyer^ 25,766.7 miles

bird in a biplane

Tracey Curtis-Taylor (inset)

sets out to reenact Lady

Mary Heath’s 1928 flight in

her Boeing-Stearman PT-17.

ROGIER WESTERHUIS; INSET: TRACEY CURTIS-TAYLOR