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#51407. gmackematix
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Why did it take 8 years from the first non-stop flight across the Alantic in 1919 to the first solo non-stop flight in 1927?
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Buck540
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Good question, in 1919 two men made the flight - one as the pilot the other as the navigator - perhaps it took 8 years for someone to be able to gain the ability to both pilot and navigate at the same time.
This site speaks of that 1919 flight:
 http://www.fi.edu/flights/long/
Oct 02 04, 11:18 PM
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Arpeggionist
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Well, consider this: It took thousands of years after the ship was invented for people to make it across the Atlantic at all. Columbus himself made three voyages to and from the New World, with any number of people on his crew. And when was the first circumnavigation of the globe? About 150 years later still. And how long did it take before somebody was crazy enough to make the voyage alone?
In the air, things may have taken less time, but there were still the same risks of taking to the sky as unexplored territory. Plus, planes weren't as reliable then as they are now, and people would have been afraid to try and cross the ocean alone thousands of feet in the air in a craft that would probably fall apart.
Oct 03 04, 8:54 AM
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gmackematix
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It just seems a while considering how quickly air records were being broken. It only took 16 years between Wilbur and Orville Wright lifting a plane into the air and Alcock and Brown's first transatlantic flight. Only 6 years after Lindbergh's famous journey, Wiley Post made the first solo flight around the world.
Oct 03 04, 6:19 PM
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