Friendship One, the Glossary
Friendship One was a successful attempt at beating the round-the-world air speed record.[1]
Table of Contents
13 relations: Athens, Bill Lear, Boeing 747SP, Clay Lacy, Gulfstream III, Gulfstream IV, Los Angeles Times, Moya Lear, Neil Armstrong, Seattle, Taipei, The New York Times, United States dollar.
- Aviation records
- Circumnavigations
Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Bill Lear
William Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman.
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Boeing 747SP
The Boeing 747SP (for Special Performance) is a shortened version of the Boeing 747 wide-body airliner, designed for a longer range.
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Clay Lacy
Hershel Clay Lacy (born August 14, 1932) is the founder and former CEO of Clay Lacy Aviation, established in 1968 as the first executive jet charter company in the Western United States.
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Gulfstream III
The Gulfstream III, a business jet produced by Gulfstream Aerospace, is an improved variant of the Grumman Gulfstream II.
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Gulfstream IV
The Gulfstream IV (or G-IV or GIV) and derivatives are a family of twinjet aircraft, mainly for private or business use.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Moya Lear
Moya Marie Olsen Lear (March 27, 1915 – December 5, 2001) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist who was the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear.
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon.
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Seattle
Seattle is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States.
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Taipei
Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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See also
Aviation records
- 1945 Japan–Washington flight
- Aircraft records
- Dawn-to-dusk transcontinental flight across the United States
- Explorer II
- Fastest propeller-driven aircraft
- First water-to-water flight
- Flight airspeed record
- Flight altitude record
- Flight distance record
- Flight endurance record
- Fran Bera
- Friendship One
- Jean Batten's 1934 record flight from England to Australia
- List of Australian aviation firsts
- List of Louis Blériot medal winners
- List of aircraft flown by Eric "Winkle" Brown
- List of firsts in aviation
- List of slowest fixed-wing aircraft
- List of spaceflight records
- Longest flights
- Project Strato-Lab
- Rome–Tokyo Raid
- The Spirit of Butts' Farm
- Transcontinental flight
- Vickers Wellington LN514
- Westray to Papa Westray flight
- World's longest domestic flight
- XCOR EZ-Rocket
- Zoom climb
Circumnavigations
- 1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation
- Expedition 360
- First Indian circumnavigation
- First Russian circumnavigation
- First aerial circumnavigation
- First voyage of James Cook
- Francis Drake's circumnavigation
- Friendship One
- George Anson's voyage around the world
- Great White Fleet
- HMS New Zealand's 1913 circumnavigation
- It's on the Meter
- List of circumnavigations
- Loaísa expedition
- Magellan expedition
- Operation Drake
- Operation Power Flite
- Operation Sandblast
- Operation Sea Orbit
- Rutan Voyager
- Tûranor PlanetSolar
- Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation
- Timeline of Francis Drake's circumnavigation
- United States Exploring Expedition