Tag: record
May 18, 1953: Jacqueline Cochran 1st woman to break the sound barrier!
While the first person to break the sound barrier was Chuck Yeager on October 14, 1947, it wasn't until 1953 that a woman also achieved this feat. She was Jacqueline Cochran, an American who had just turned 46.
Abandoned by...
Air Tahiti Nui breaks the record for the longest flight in the world thanks to the Coronavirus
A little ray of sunshine in a rather sad context. "Thanks to the Coronavirus, Air Tahiti Nui has just broken two records.
The airline usually operates a flight between Papeete and Paris with a stopover in Los Angeles. But because...
What is Qantas’ ambitious Sunrise project for the world’s longest flight? Dream or soon to be reality?
Australia is far, very far, and it is very difficult to connect the country to the big European and American capitals without a stopover. If Qantas, the Australian airline, has just celebrated the anniversary of its Perth-London flight, which...
Thanks to the Ciara storm, the speed record for crossing the Atlantic has fallen!
Due to the strong winds generated by the storm Ciara, three planes broke the Atlantic crossing speed record yesterday Sunday.
The previous record belonged to a Norwegian Boeing 787 that flew from New York to London in 5 hours...