Euro Airship is planning an around-the-world, non-stop flight with Solar Airship One. If it succeeds, it would become the first flight to make the trip without using fossil fuels.

The first flight around the world was made by the U.S. Army Air Service in 1924 using four planes, each holding a pilot and mechanic. It took 175 days, with 74 stops. In 1933, Wiley Post made the ...

Dark Skies. The First Non-Stop Flight Around the World – B-50 Lucky Lady II Story. Posted: March 20, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. It was bold, risky, and absolutely historic.

FILE - Co-pilots Dick Rutan, right, and Jeana Yeager pose after a test flight over the Mojave Desert, Dec. 19, 1985. The two completed the first round-the-world flight with no stops or refueling ...

On March 2, 1949, Lucky Lady II an Air Force B-50 became the first airplane to circle the world nonstop. Air Force General Curtis LeMay set a high bar for the Superfortress.

A US Air Force KC-46A Pegasus executed world’s first 45-hour nonstop, KC-46A Pegasus westbound circumnavigation endurance flight, called Project Magellan, June 29-July 1 starting and finishing ...

Passengers sitting and sleeping on an airplane. Long-haul flights are no modern invention. Trans-Atlantic flights, which usually clock in between 3,000 and 4,000 miles, have been around for a ...

Dick Rutan, who with copilot Jeana Yeager completed the first round-the-world flight without stops or refueling, died Friday. He was 85. Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, died at a hospital in ...

Bounce compared 10 of the longest commercial flights with nonstop service using data from Air Miles Calculator, airline websites, and news reports. circle-arrow Play Button ...

Dick Rutan, who with copilot Jeana Yeager completed the first round-the-world flight without stops or refueling, died Friday. He was 85. Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, died at a hospital in ...

Dick Rutan, who with copilot Jeana Yeager completed the first round-the-world flight without stops or refueling, died Friday. He was 85. Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, died at a hospital in ...