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  2. Air cargo - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1920s, air cargo developed rapidly because numerous entrepreneurs realized aircraft could move high value and low volume consignments much faster than the railroads and shipping companies. The first scheduled flight from London to Paris in 1919 had only one passenger, but carried leather for a shoe manufacturer and grouse for a ...

  3. Cargo aircraft - Wikipedia

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    The Vickers Vernon, introduced in 1921, was the first cargo plane for military troops The Arado Ar 232, the first purpose built cargo aircraft A U.S. Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules, the archetypal military transport aircraft, over the Atlantic Ocean in 2014 The Antonov An-225 Mriya, the heaviest cargo aircraft

  4. 1909 in aviation - Wikipedia

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    4 November – John Moore-Brabazon makes the first live cargo flight by airplane when he puts a small pig in a waste-paper basket tied to a wing-strut of his airplane. 16 November – The first air transport company (or airline ) in the world, the German Airship Travel Corporation (known by its German language acronym DELAG ), is founded at ...

  5. Flying Tiger Line - Wikipedia

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    The aircraft was operating a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) cargo flight from Travis AFB to Kadena Air Base. [22] On March 16, 1962, Flight 739 (also known as Flight 7815/13) L-1049H Super Constellation N6921C disappeared over the Pacific en-route from Guam to Clark AFB in the Philippines with 107 on board. A ship witnessed an explosion ...

  6. Cargo airline - Wikipedia

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    A Boeing 777F of FedEx Express, which is the largest cargo airline in the world. Unit load device LD3 containers being loaded into the belly cargo hold of a Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft A Boeing 747-400F of Cargolux. Cargo airlines (or air freight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines mainly dedicated to the transport of ...

  7. List of cargo airlines - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of notable cargo airlines organised by home country. Africa. Egyptair Cargo Airbus A300-600RF

  8. History of aviation - Wikipedia

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    This well-documented event was the first flight verified by the Aéro-Club de France of a powered heavier-than-air machine in Europe and won the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first officially observed flight greater than 25 m (82 ft). On 12 November 1906, Santos-Dumont set the first world record recognized by the Federation Aeronautique ...

  9. Transpacific crossing - Wikipedia

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    Transpacific crossings are voyages of passengers and cargo across the Pacific Ocean between Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Transpacific voyages frequently cross the International Date Line. The first recorded crossing of the Pacific was a Spanish expedition led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan of 1521.