An Overview History of Flight
Especially of Dirigible Flight
-This is very much a work in progress-
First Controlled Human Flight:
First Attempted Atlantic Crossing:
First Round-Trip Atlantic Crossing:
British Rigid Airship, R34 left Britain on July 2nd 1919 and arrived at Mineola, Long Island, United States, on July 6th after a flight of 108 hours with virtually no fuel left. Refueled, rested for four days, then returned to England.
Around the World:
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin - August 8 to August 29, 1928
THE POLES:
North -
First Airship Attempt (1897):
Solo Non-Stop Across the Atlantic (HTA)
May 20-21, 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, landing just outside of Paris, France. The 25-year-old unknown pilot who had never flown over water before, made the flight in 33 hours, after which he and his single-engine monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, making Lindbergh one of the most famous aviators of all time.
DELAG:
First Airline, First Transatlantic Passenger Service, First Flight Attendant
The world’s first passenger airline, DELAG (Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft, or German Airship Transportation Corporation Ltd) was established on November 16, 1909, as an offshoot of the Zeppelin Company. The company provided passenger air service until 1935, when its operations were taken over by the newly-formed Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei.
DELAG offered the world’s first transatlantic passenger airline service, using LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin to make regular, scheduled flights between Germany and South America beginning in 1931. Graf Zeppelin crossed the South Atlantic 136 times before being retired after the Hindenburg disaster in 1937.
DELAG also employed the world’s first flight attendant, Heinrich Kubis.
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