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The flight endurance record is the amount of time spent in the air. It can be a solo event, or multiple people can take turns piloting the aircraft in shifts. The limit initially was the amount of fuel that could be stored for the flight, but midair refueling extended that parameter. Boom and receptacle: USAF KC-135R Stratotanker, two F-15s (twin fins) and two F-16s, on an aerial refueling training mission Probe and drogue: USAF HC-130P refuels a HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter Aerial refueling, also called in-flight refueling (IFR) or air-to-air refueling (AAR), is...
Airplane
Non commercial - 1931 Walter Edwin Lees and Frederick Brossy: 84 hours and 33 minutes for a non-refueling airplane flight when they landed at Jacksonville Beach at 7:20 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time.
Jacksonville Beach is a city located in Duval County, Florida. ...
Commercial - 2005 A Boeing 777 wide-body aircraft set an endurance record for a non-stop commercial flight November 10, 2005 traveling more than 22 hours eastward from Hong Kong to London. The aircraft, with 35 passengers and crew aboard, flew more than half way around the world, covering 11,664 nautical miles, or 21,601 kilometers. [1]
The Boeing 777 is a family of long-range wide-body twin-engine airliners built by Boeings Commercial Airplanes division. ...
Balloon - An uncrewed scientific balloon set an endurance record after circling the South Pole three times. On its flight, which ended 2 hours short of 42 days, NASA's Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) instrument captured high-energy cosmic rays that may have come from supernovae. The previous record was held by NASA's Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder balloon mission, which stayed afloat over Antarctica for almost 32 days in 2002. [2]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for that nations public space program. ...
Glider - Charles Atger of France flew an Arsenal Air 100 glider for 56h 15m until 2 April 1952 at Romanin les Alpilles near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in France. [1] After this, endurance records were discontinued as pointless and because of the danger of pilots falling asleep.
Gliders or Sailplanes are heavier-than-air aircraft primarily intended for unpowered flight. ...
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a commune of southern France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, in the former province of Provence. ...
Space - 2002 Expedition Four Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch, spent 196 days in space, the previous record was 188 days and broke the U.S. space flight endurance record. Expedition Four began in December 2001 and ended June 2002.
Carl E. Walz (COLONEL, USAF) is a NASA astronaut. ...
Daniel W. Bursch (CAPTAIN, USN) (born July 25, 1957) is a NASA astronaut. ...
See also
Extremes of motion v • d • e | | | Speed records | Air speed record (Transcontinental) | Land speed record (Railed | Road car | Motorcycle | British) | Water speed record (Underwater)
Sound barrier | Speed of light | | Distance records | Flight distance record | Flight altitude record | Ocean depth record | Flight endurance record
Boundary of space | | Notable craft | Bathyscaphe Trieste | Bell X-1 | Sputnik 1 | Apollo 10 | Space Shuttle | Boeing X-43
see also: Spaceflight records | List of transport records | FAI records The worlds fastest aircraft, the SR-71 Blackbird. ...
Transcontinental air speed record In-flight and on-ground time is counted 1929 Frank Hawks 1937 Howard Hughes Junior transcontinental air speed record For the junior record only in-flight time is counted 1929 Richard James 1930 Stanley Boynton East to West, 24 hours, 2 minutes in 6 days 1930...
Ralph DePalma in his Packard 905 Special at Daytona Beach in 1919, courtesy Florida Photographic Collection The land speed record is the fastest speed achieved by a vehicle on land, as opposed to one on water or in the air. ...
Determining the fastest railed veichle in the world is difficult, because of the wide variety of designs. ...
There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...
Model of Spirit of Australia in which Ken Warby set the world water speed record in 1978 on Blowering Dam, New South Wales, Australia The World Unlimited water speed record is the officially recognised fastest speed achieved by a water-borne vehicle. ...
Since most high speed underwater travel is done by military submarines, this is a somewhat difficult subject to research. ...
U.S. Navy F/A-18 at transonic speed. ...
The speed of light in a vacuum is an important physical constant denoted by the letter c for constant or the Latin word celeritas meaning swiftness. It is the speed of all electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum, not just visible light. ...
Flight distance records without refueling. ...
These are the records set for going the highest in the atmosphere from the age of ballooning onward. ...
The bathyscaphe Trieste Close-up of pressure sphere Trieste emblem Trieste was a deep-diving research bathyscaphe (deep boat) with a crew of two people. ...
The bathyscaphe Trieste Close-up of pressure sphere Trieste emblem Trieste was a deep-diving research bathyscaphe (deep boat) with a crew of two people. ...
The Bell X-1, originally XS-1 was the first aircraft to exceed the speed of sound in controlled, level flight. ...
Sputnik 1 (Russian: , Satellite 1) was the first artificial satellite to be put into orbit, on October 4, 1957. ...
Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program, and the first (and only manned Saturn V) mission to launch from pad 39B. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon, and the test of the lunar module in lunar orbit. ...
NASAs Space Shuttle, officially called Space Transportation System (STS), is the United States governments current manned launch vehicle. ...
NASA technicians working on the X-43A at the tip of a Pegasus rocket attached to a Boeing B-52B prior to launch (March 27, 2004) The X-43 is an unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft design with multiple planned scale variations meant to test different aspects of highly supersonic flight. ...
It has been suggested that Space firsts be merged into this article or section. ...
// List of world records is an annotated list of world records organised by category. ...
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) is a standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics. ...
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Reference - New York Times; May 29, 1931; Set Flight Record Without Refueling; Lees And Brossy, 84:33 Hours In Air, Recapture World Mark From France. Land On Florida Beach Take-Off In Diesel-Motor Plane Was Made Early Monday. Pair Slept Easily In Craft. Throngs Held Back For Landing. Set Flight Record Without Refueling Storm Threat Blows Over. Not Tired By 6,600-Mile Grind. Lees Once Drove Horse Car. Jacksonville, Florida, May 28, 1931 Walter Lees and Frederick Brossy, Detroit aviators, established a new world's record of 84 hours and 33 minutes for a non-refueling airplane flight when they landed at Jacksonville Beach at 7:20 o'clock, Eastern [Standard Time] ...
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