Sentences with phrase «first flight around the world»

In 1924, four planes began the first flight around the world.

-- First Flight Around the World is a finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award

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In 1986, his brother Dick co-piloted an aircraft called Voyager on the first nonstop flight around the world.

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While the leading experts around the world — with well - funded, never - ending resources at hand — were trying (and dramatically failing) to become the first to fly, it was these two bicycle mechanics who didn't have a college education, who saw each new problem standing in their way of flight as one amazing step closer to solving the problem.

Flight simulators are, in essence, learning games and they've been around since the First World War!

The special menu was originally an exclusive perk for first class flights from London, but was later expanded to include flights to Milan, New York, Paris and Tokyo and highlights dishes from the Michelin - starred chefs of many of properties around the world.

Wednesday newsletters always feature trip reports of my flights around the world (in Business and First Class), in addition to luxury hotel reviews.

Rehabilitating the TWA Flight Centre as JFK's first on - site, full - service hotel will provide a game - changing 21st century amenity for travellers from across the country and around the world.

For me, transferring points to an airline partner and then using them to book international first and business class flights around the world is the best use of my points but I understand not everyone wants to, or can travel internationally every year.

A sane person could definitely spend that for flights in First Class and three stop overs around the world on two of the best international airlines.

During our around the world adventure, sampling the best first and business class cabins, we took a ride on Qatar Airways flight 57 from Doha to Munich, aboard their state of the art Airbus A350 - 900.

Since then, he designed the aircraft that made the first nonstop around the world flight and designed the first suborbital spacecraft to win the X-Prize.

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During just the first four days of Hurricane Sandy, over 20,000 flights were cancelled according to the Chicago Tribune, and the super storm continued to disrupt travel around the world for hundreds of thousands of people scheduled to fly to or through the East Coast of the U.S. Of course, natural disasters aren't the only -LSB-...]