The flight endurance record is the longest amount of time an aircraft of a particular category spent in flight without landing. It can be a solo event...

Flight record may refer to: Flight endurance record Flight distance record Flight altitude record Flight airspeed record Longest flights This disambiguation...

days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds later on December 23, setting a flight endurance record. The aircraft flew westbound 26,366 statute miles (42,432 km; the...

activities during the early 20th century. They are best known for their flight endurance record, which they cemented at twenty-seven days. They also invented a...

took back the endurance record with a 17-hour flight on February 10–11, but three months later, in April 1929, Smith smashed that record, soloing 26½ hours...

1945. Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight, before and after World War II....

Frederic Albert Brossy (March 25, 1902 – February 20, 1974) set the flight endurance record with Walter Edwin Lees on May 28, 1931. He was born in 1902 to...

Scotland. This record was established when service began in 1967, and it remains in effect as of December 2022. Flight length Flight endurance record Cross-America...

were awarded the 1922 Mackay Trophy for the beating the world's air endurance record and staying aloft for 36 hours, 4 minutes, and 32 seconds. On May 2...

patterns). A subvariant of this is "Flight endurance" which is used in referring to a specific operated flight, usually recorded with observers, specialized equipment...

Institution awaiting restoration and display. Kiceniuk set several endurance records with Icarus II. Icarus III and Icarus IV were abandoned in the design...

Wright sets three world records: a flight endurance record of 57 minutes 13 seconds on his first flight, a new flight endurance record of 1 hour 2 minutes...

landing gear brakes on an airplane. In 1921, he set a world endurance record for flight, and the following year, he worked as a test pilot for the Stout...

1887 – May 16, 1957) was an early American aviator who set a flight endurance record in 1931. He was born on July 16, 1887, in Janesville, Wisconsin...

Carberry and another reached 11,690 feet. Taliaferro also achieved a flight endurance record in September 1915 of 9 hours and 45 minutes, before he ran out...

women's altitude record in December 1928 with a mark of 20,260 feet. In March 1929, she set the women's endurance record with a flight of 22 hours, 3 minutes...

February 1905 – 17 July 1976) was an American aviator who broke a flight endurance record with his brother Fred in 1935. After a distinguished career in...

set early altitude and distance records, including one record set on the same day that he flew his first solo flight. Beatty was born on August 28, 1887...

1924. Smith held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance. He was awarded the best achievement in flight Mackay Trophy twice...

distance record over a closed circuit – and stayed aloft for 58 hours 34 minutes – a new world endurance record. Moreover, they also set the world record for...

first commercial flight of an airplane, establishing a world cross-country speed record, holding the world flying endurance record, piloting the first...

American aviator and endurance flying record holder. Trout began her aviation career at the age of 16; however, her first solo flight and solo certificate...

Thérèse Peltier. On 6 September 1908, he set distance and endurance records with a flight of 24.727 kilometres (15.365 mi) lasting 29 minutes 53.8 seconds...

American Legion Aerial Derby over a 140-mile (230 km) course in 1 hour. Endurance record, Roosevelt Field – In January 1922, Bertaud and Edward Stinson won...

The Orion is a Medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by Aurora Flight Sciences. Work on the Orion began in 2006, when...

1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator and test pilot. He and Clarence D. Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and...

competition. The same year, he set a world altitude record of 2,100 meters (6,888 feet) and an endurance record for carrying four passengers for 46 minutes and...

flight endurance record as part of an experiment with aerial refueling. Question Mark established new world records in aviation for sustained flight (heavier-than-air)...

non-stop flight from Italy to Brazil in 1928 with fellow aviator Carlo Del Prete. The latter flight set the world distance record for a non-stop flight. Ferrarin...

his test flights. On 14 May 1909, he succeeded in flying for over a mile, establishing the first official British distance and endurance records. By August...