Flight distance record
Appearance
This list of flight distance records contains only those set without any mid-air refueling.
Non-commercial powered aircraft
Year | Date | Distance | Pilot | Aircraft | Notes | |
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2006 | February 12, 2006 | 41,467.46 km | Steve Fossett | GlobalFlyer | Steve Fossett.[1][2] | |
1986 | December 23, 1986 | 40,212.14 km | Richard Glenn Rutan and Jeana Yeager | Rutan Voyager | Circumnavigation. Fédération Aéronautique Internationale record holder up to 2006 (current class holder).[3] | |
1962 | January 10–11, 1962 | 20,168.78 km (12532.3 mi) |
Major Clyde P. Evely and crew | Boeing B-52H Stratofortress | From Kadena AB, Okinawa to Torrejon AB, Spain, via Tokyo, Seattle, Fort Worth, Washington DC and the Azores[4] | |
1946 | September 29 - October 2, 1946 | 18,083.6 km | CDR Tom Davies pilot, Cdr. Eugene Rankin (co-pilot) and two crew | P2V-1 Neptune | From Perth, Australia to Columbus, U.S. | |
1945 | November 20, 1945 | 12,739.6 km | U.S. Army Air Forces; C. S. Irvine + crew of 9 | Boeing B-29 Superfortress | From Guam to Washington DC, USA | |
1944 | January 2, 1944 | 16,435 km | Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (Omata, Tanaka, Shimazaki, Sakamoto, Motimatsu, Habiro) | Tachikawa Ki-77 | From Hsinking to Báichéng, China (closed circuit) | |
1938 | November 5–7, 1938 | 11,520.4 km (7,162 miles) |
Royal Air Force Long Range Development Unit; R. Kellett, H.A.V. Hogan and A. N. Combe (first pilots) + crew of two (also qualified pilots) in each aircraft | Vickers Wellesley | From Ismailia, Egypt to Darwin, Northern Territory in Australia; three aircraft flew in formation, Hogan landed to refuel at Koepang (500 miles short of Darwin, Australia), the other two landed at Darwin, Northern Territory.[5] | |
1938 | May 13–15, 1938 | 11,651.011 km | Yuzoh Fujita + crew (Japan) | Koken-ki | Three-corner course over Japan. Closed-circuit record.[6] | |
1937 | July 12–14, 1937 | 10,148.5 km | Mikhail Gromov + crew (Soviet Union) | Tupolev ANT-25 | From Moscow to San Jacinto, California, USA | |
1933 | August 5–7, 1933 | 9,104.7 km | Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos (France) | Blériot 110 F-ALCC | From Floyd Bennett Field, New York, USA to Rayak, Syria | |
1933 | February 8, 1933 | 8,544 km | Royal Air Force Long Range Development Unit; O. R. Gayford and Gilbert Nicholetts | Fairey Long-range Monoplane K1991 | From Cranwell, UK, to Walvis Bay, South Africa | |
1931 | July 28–31 | 8,066 km | Russell Boardman and John Polando | Bellanca J-300 Special Cape Cod NR761W | From Floyd Bennett Field to Istanbul, Turkey[7] | |
1929 | December 15–19, 1929 | 8,029.44 km | Dieudonné Costes and P. Codas | Breguet 19 Super Bidon Point d'Interrogation | Closed-circuit record.[8][9] | |
1929 | September 27–29, 1929 | 7,905.140 km | Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte | Breguet 19 Super Bidon Point d'Interrogation | Paris to Qiqihar, China.[10] | |
1927 | June 28–29 | 3,862.43 km | Albert Francis Hegenberger and Lester Maitland | Fokker F.VII | From California to Hawaii, the longest open sea flight up to that date, in the "Bird of Paradise". They received the Mackey Trophy and the Distinguished Flying Cross from President Calvin Coolidge for this achievement.[11] | |
1927 | May 20–21, 1927 | 5,809 km | Charles Lindbergh | Ryan NYP, Spirit of St. Louis | New York – Paris[12][13] | |
1926 | October 28–29, 1926 | 5,396 km | Dieudonné Costes and Jean Rignot | Breguet 19 GR | From Paris–Le Bourget Airport to Djask, Iran[14][15] | |
1926 | August 31–September 1, 1926 | 5,174 km | Léon Challe and René Weiser | Breguet 19 GR | From Paris–Le Bourget Airport to Bandar Abbas[14][16] | |
1926 | July 14–15, 1926 | 4715.90 km | André Girier and François Dordilly | Breguet 19 GR | From Paris to Omsk[14][17] | |
1926 | June 26–27, 1926 | 4313 km | Ludovic Arrachart and Paul Arrachart | Potez 28 | From Paris to Basrah, Iraq[18][19] | |
1925 | August 30–31, 1925 | 3,206 km | CDR John Rodgers (USN) | PN-9 Flying Boat | From San Francisco and Honolulu by Seaplane over open water without visual navigational aides.[20][21] | |
1925 | August 7–9, 1925 | 4,400 km | Maurice Drouhin and Jules Landry | Farman F.62 Goliath | Closed circuit Chartres–Étampes–Toussus–Chartres.[22][23] | |
1925 | February 3–4, 1925 | 3,166.30 km | Ludovic Arrachart and Henry Lemaitre | Breguet 19 | Distance in a straight line record. Étampes–Villa Cisneros.[24][25] | |
1923 | April 16–17, 1923 | 4,050 km | Oakley G. Kelly and John A. Macready | Fokker T.2 | Closed circuit around Dayton, Ohio[26][27] | |
1920 | June 3–4, 1920 | 1,915.2 km | L Boussoutrot and J Bernard | Farman Goliath | Closed-circuit record[28] | |
1919 | June 14–15, 1919 | 3,040 km | John Alcock and Arthur Brown | Vickers Vimy | Flew non-stop from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Connemara in 15 hours 57 minutes | |
1914 | February 7, 1914 | 1,699 km | Karl Ingold | Mercedes Aviatik-Pfeil[29] | He flew continuously from 7:35 am until 11:55 pm covering 1,056 miles in 16 hours and 20 minutes.[30] | |
1903 | December 17, 1903 | 279 m | Wilbur Wright | Wright Flyer | 59 seconds | |
1903 | December 17, 1903 | 39 m | Orville Wright | Wright Flyer | 12 seconds | |
1901 | August 14, 1901 | 250 m | Gustave Albin Whitehead | Condor | 3 min.[31] Probably towed by an assistant running and holding a rope on the ground[32] | |
1852 | September 24, 1852 | 17 miles | Henri Giffard | The Giffard airship | over an hour[33] |
Commercial aircraft
Year | Date | Distance | Pilot | Aircraft | Reference |
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2005 | November 9, 2005 | 21,602.22 km | Suzanna Darcy-Henneman, Asif Abbas Raza, John Cashman, Mohammed Ilyas Malik | Boeing 777-200LR | Hong Kong International Airport to London Heathrow Airport the long way round taking 22 hours, 22 minutes[34] |
1997 | April 2, 1997 | 20,044 km | Boeing 777-200ER | Malaysia Airlines delivery flight from Boeing Field, Seattle to Kuala Lumpur International Airport in 21 hours and 23 minutes. | |
2011 | December 6, 2011 | 19,830 km | Boeing 787-8 | Boeing Field to Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 21 hours and 43 minutes. | |
1993 | June 16 to 18, 1993 | 19,277 km | Airbus A340-200 | Airbus A340 demonstration flight from Paris, France to Auckland International Airport, New Zealand. | |
1989 | August 16 to 17, 1989 | 18,001 km | Boeing 747-400 | Qantas delivery flight from London Heathrow Airport to Sydney International Airport in 20 hours and 9 minutes. | |
2013 | June 6, 2013 | 17,312 km | Airbus A330-200 | Delta Air Lines ferry flight between Singapore and Atlanta in 18 hours and 34 minutes; returning from extensive cabin renovations. | |
2002 | December 24, 2002 | 16,910 km | Airbus A330-200 | Qantas between Toulouse and Melbourne in 20 hours 4 minutes.[35] | |
2004 | June 28, 2004 | 16,600 km | Airbus A340-500 | Singapore Airlines between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey in 18 hours 20 minutes. Was the longest regularly scheduled commercial flight until its cancellation on November 23, 2013.[36] | |
2004 | February 3, 2004 | 14,093 km | Airbus A340-500 | Singapore Airlines between Singapore and Los Angeles in 14 hours 42 minutes.[36] | |
1988 | September 17, 1988 | 14,042 km | Boeing 767-200ER | Air Mauritius between Halifax and Mauritius in 16 hours and 27 minutes.[36] |
Shortest distance
The Loganair Westray to Papa Westray route and its return flight make up the shortest flight distance for any scheduled air carrier service. The route is 2.8 km (1.7 miles), and travel time, including taxi, is usually less than two minutes. The route is served by Loganair airlines' Britten-Norman Islander aircraft. This record was established when service began in 1967, and it remains in effect as of January, 2016.[37][38][39]
Other types of aircraft
Date | Measurement | Person | Aircraft | Reference |
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January 21, 2003 | 3,008.8 km | Klaus Ohlmann and Karl Rabeder | Schempp-Hirth Nimbus-4 | The gliding flight consisted of four legs along the eastern side of the Andes mountain range. The flight time of 15h 8m giving an average speed of almost exactly 200 km/h.[40][41] |
March 21, 1999 | 40,814 km | Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones | Breitling Orbiter | Distance record for a balloon |
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "FAI Record ID #13081 - Distance, C-Absolute (Absolute Record of classes C, H and M) " Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Retrieved: 10 October 2014.
- ^ Fossett link
- ^ "FAI Record ID #8391 - Distance over a closed course. Class C-1e" Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Retrieved: 10 October 2014.
- ^ Taylor 1966, p. 2.
- ^ "Triple triumph" Flight 1938]
- ^ Mikesh and Abe 1990, p. 91.
- ^ "'Cape Cod's' Success Climaxes 5 Years [of] Bellanca Records". The Sunday Morning Star, Wilmington, DE. 2 August 1931. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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- ^ "New Closed Circuit Record". Flight. Vol. XXI, no. 1095. 20 December 1929. p. 1330.
- ^ "World's Records In Aviation". Flight, 20 March 1931, p. 247.
- ^ Bird of Paradise
- ^ "FAI Record ID #14842". Retrieved 8 November 2013..
- ^ "New York–Paris: Lindbergh's Non-Stop Fight Across the Atlantic". Flight. Vol. XIX, no. 961. 26 May 1927. pp. 331–333.
- ^ a b c Green, Swanborough and Leyvastre 1978, p. 171.
- ^ "FAI Record ID #9306". Retrieved 8 November 2013..
- ^ "FAI Record ID #9307". Retrieved 8 November 2013..
- ^ "FAI Record ID #9299". Retrieved 8 November 2013..
- ^ "FAI Record ID #9304". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ Parmentier, Bruno. "Potez 28/2". aviafrance. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/hawaii-aviation-pioneers/john-rodgers.
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(help) - ^ "The New World's Duration Record". Flight. Vol. XVII, no. 868. 13 August 1925. p. 525.
- ^ "The World's Duration Record: Some More Details Concerning the Wonderful Farman Performance". Flight. Vol. XVII, no. 870. 27 August 1925. p. 550.
- ^ Green, Swanborough and Leyvastre 1978, p. 170.
- ^ "FAI Record ID #9305". Retrieved 8 November 2013..
- ^ "Thirty-six Hours in the Air". Flight. Vol. XV, no. 748. 26 April 1923. p. 232.
- ^ "Records Homologated". Flight. Vol. XV, no. 757. 28 June 1923. p. 356.
- ^ "The Royal Aero Club of the U.K.: Official Notices to Members: Official World's Records Passed by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, January 6 to October 20, 1920". Flight. Vol. XII, no. 625. 16 December 1920. p. 1274.
- ^ Karl Ingold plane
- ^ "German Airmen Sets Record". Popular Mechanics. 1914.
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- ^ http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I009/10237471.aspx/
- ^ Commercial distance record
- ^ http://www.airbus.com/presscentre/pressreleases/press-release-detail/detail/qantas-flies-airbus-a330-nonstop-from-europe-to-australia/
- ^ a b c "Singapore Airlines A340-500 Beats its own Non-Stop Flight Distance Record". 28 June 2004. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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- ^ Clarke, Chris. "The World's Shortest Commercial Flight Takes Less Than A Minute". Flight Club. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ Johnson, Sarah (10 January 2013). "Right to operate world's shortest scheduled flight at just 47 seconds sparks bidding war between aviation firms". Daily Mail. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ FAI link to gliding records
- ^ "Schallmauer durchbrochen" (pdf). Skyrevue. Jan 2003. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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References
- Green, William, Gordon Swanborough and Pierre Layvastre. "The Saga of the Ubiquitous Breguet". Air Enthusiast, Seven, July–September 1978. pp. 161–181.
- Mikesh, Robert C. and Abe, Shorzoe. Japanese Aircraft 1910-1941. London:Putnam, 1990. ISBN 0-85177-840-2.
- Taylor, John W. R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1966-67. London:Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1966.