First aerial circumnavigation
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title:
First aerial circumnavigation
text:
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 from April to September covered over 26,345 miles (42,398 km). The team generally traveled east to west, around the northern-Pacific Rim, through to South Asia and Europe and back to the United States. Airmen Lowell H. Smith and Leslie P. Arnold, and Erik H. Nelson and John Harding Jr.
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1924 aviation feat by U.S. Army Air Service officers
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aerial_circumnavigation
date created:
2005-03-25T23:29:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T07:11:15Z
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