1926 in aeronautics

Chronology of aeronautics

1925 in aeronautics - 1926 in aeronautics - 1927 in aeronautics

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  • May 9th : Overflight of the North pole by American forwarding Byrd. “Fokker FVII 3m” assembled on skis carry out several loops around the Pole, during 14 minutes.

  • March 30th with the July 20th : The American journalist Mr. LD garnder of the magazine “Aviation” accomplishes a voyage 32.317 km in Europe, Asia and Africa by using only regular lines. In 53 days, Gardner is momentary on 70 planes or seaplanes different (25 different models) for 234 hours and 49 minutes from vol.

  • June 15th : First flight of “Haviland DH9 AJ Stag”.

  • June 26th : The French crew composed of Ludovic Arrachart and Paul Arrachart improves the record of distance in straight line: 4.305 km on a “Potez 28” between Paris and Al Basra (Iraq).

  • July 14th : A French crew (Girier and Dordilly) connects Paris and Omsk without stopover, improving the record of distance in straight line: 4 715,9 km, in 27 hours on board a Breguet 19 been driven by an engine Hispano-Suiza of 450 ch.

  • 16 with the July 19th : A Soviet crew (pilot: Moisselef) connects Moscow and Teheran, and return, is 6.000 km in 37 hours and 15 minutes of vol.

  • July 17th : A French crew (Weiss and Latapie) begins a “Turn from the capitals” on a “Bréguet 19”: Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Rīga, Warsaw and Prague, is a course of more than 8.000 km in 31 hours and 40 minutes of flight over 6 days.

  • July 24th with the September 26th : Flight of study for the creation of a line of the Deutsche Luft Hansa between Berlin and Beijing via Moscow. Two Junkers G.23 accomplish this reconnaissance flight, that is to say 20.000 km for 140 hours of vol.

  • August : First flight of the “Potez 26”.

  • August 31st : The world records of distance in straight line and without stopover are beaten, with 5.174 km in 30 hours between Paris and Bender Abbas, by the lieutenant Leon Challe and the captain Rene Weiser on a “Breguet 19” with Farman engine of 500 ch.

  • August 31st : The Czech pilot Jira carries out the way Prague - Paris - Prague, without stopover, that is to say 1.900 km in 13 hours and 43 minutes.

  • November 25th : A formation of 23 “Farman Goliath” reconverted in the seaplanes crosses the Mediterranean between Saint-Raphaël (France) and Karouba (Tunisia)

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