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Ross Perot, Jr. and Jay Coburn, 1982, first circumnavigation by helicopter, by Bell 206L-1 LongRanger II. Dick Smith, 1982–1983, first solo circumnavigation by helicopter, in a Bell Jetranger III. [43] Donald "Rode" Rodewald, 1984, first circumnavigation by a paraplegic pilot in a Comanche 260 with hand controls.
A person walking completely around either pole will cross all meridians, but this is not generally considered a "circumnavigation". The path of a true (global) circumnavigation forms a continuous loop on the surface of Earth separating two regions of comparable area. [citation needed] A basic definition of a global circumnavigation would be a ...
D. William Dampier. Charles Darwin. Desire (ship) John DeWolf (sea captain) George Dixon (Royal Navy officer) Raphaël Domjan. Francis Drake.
On 15 November 1577, Francis Drake began a circumnavigation which would last for 1046 days. Before this journey, only a single expedition had completed a circumnavigation, one pioneered by Ferdinand Magellan. [1] On Drake's voyage, Drake was the first Englishman to navigate out of the south Atlantic Ocean and during the journey, he established ...
12 October 1992. 13 October 1992. Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [27] [28] [29] Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru ( Air France ) 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds. 15 August 1995. 16 August 1995. Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing.
Articles about circumnavigations, complete navigations around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon ). The first recorded circumnavigation of the Earth was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Seville, Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522, after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
The first aerial circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1924 by four aviators from an eight-man team of the United States Army Air Service, the precursor of the United States Air Force. The 175-day journey covered over 26,345 miles (42,398 km). The team generally traveled east to west, around the northern- Pacific Rim, through to South ...
French is an official language in 32 independent nations which is the second most geographically widespread official language in the world after English.French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 60 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]