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  2. Claims to the first airplane flight - Wikipedia

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    Then on 12 November a flight of 22.2 seconds carried the 14-bis some 220 m (720 ft), earning the Aéro-Club prize of 1,500 francs for the first flight of more than 100 m. [39] This flight was also observed by the newly formed Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) and became the first record in their log book.

  3. Benjamin Foulois - Wikipedia

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    On July 30, 1909, Foulois' first flight in an aeroplane was the evaluation test flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria, Virginia. Pilot Orville Wright and navigator Foulois broke previous speed, altitude, and cross-country duration records, flying at 42.5 mph, 400 feet, and for 10 miles (16 km).

  4. Who invented the airplane? What to know about the first ... - AOL

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    They conducted several tests, but Orville made the first flight at 10:35 a.m., lasting 12 seconds and traveling 120 feet. Wilbur flew it the longest that day for 59 seconds and across 852 feet.

  5. Alberto Santos-Dumont - Wikipedia

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    No. 8 was a copy of No. 6 ordered by Edward Boyce, vice president of the Aeroclub of America, [13]: 319 [AZ] having made a single flight in New York; [55]: 6 No. 9, with 261 cubic metres and 3 hp, was a travel airship, in which Santos-Dumont made several flights throughout 1903, [26]: 17 [BA] including the first night flight of an airship on 24 ...

  6. Samuel Franklin Cody - Wikipedia

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    On 29 December 1909, Cody became the first man to fly from Liverpool in an unsuccessful attempt to win the Sir William Hartley Prize for a non-stop flight between Liverpool and Manchester. He set off from Aintree Racecourse at 12.16 p.m., but 19 minutes later he was forced to land at Valencia Farm near to Eccleston Hill, St Helens , close to ...

  7. Santos-Dumont number 6 - Wikipedia

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    After some tethered trials on September 5 Santos Dumont made his first flight in the airship on September 6. After an hour and a half of trials at the Longchamps racecourse he flew the craft to meet friends at a nearby restaurant, but on attempting to return to his base at Chalais-Meudon a series of mishaps ended with the gondola being damaged. [5]

  8. Cromwell Dixon - Wikipedia

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    Every aviator who had tried had died. His manager refused to allow him to try the dangerous trip until a $10,000 purse was raised. [1] On September 30, Dixon flew from Helena to Blossburg, some 15 miles to the west, over the Mullan Pass. The flight took 26 minutes, and by completing it Dixon became the first aviator to cross the Continental Divide.

  9. Theodore G. Ellyson - Wikipedia

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    LT Ellyson became first aviator in history to qualify as a pilot according to Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) standards in a flight over water. In the presence of a committee of the Aero Club of America, he was required to fly five figure eights around two flags buoyed 1500 feet apart and land within 150 feet of an established mark.