WORLDS WEIRDEST PLANES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Oldest person to circumnavigate the world
Fred Lasby circumnavigated the world at 82 years and 84 days old.
He completed the crazy journey in his single engine Piper
Comanche.
He left Fort Myers, Florida 30th of June
and arrived 20th of August
back in Fort Myers.
His journey was approximately 37,366 km.
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Smallest spy plane
The smallest plane to ever to be built is the
Black Widow.
It was created by AeroEnvironment in
California, USA.
It was created for reconnaissance for
ground combat troops.
It has a astonishing wingspan of 15.47cm
and weighs just 80 grams.
It carries a tiny colour video camera
that is just 2 grams.
It has a speed of 50km/ph and has a max range of 2 km.
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Longest time suspended between two planes
The longest time suspended between
to bi-planes is 9.3 seconds
this was achieved by Yves Rossy a citizen of switzerland.
He achieved this over
the beautiful skies of Cirencester, England
on the 12th of June 1999.
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Longest human powered flight
Kanellos Kanellpoulas of Greece
achieved the world record for the
longest human powered flight. He pedalled on his Daedalus 88
115.11km from Heraklion,
Crete to the greek island of Santori on the 23rd of April 1998.
This very tiring journey took him a astounding
3 hours 54 minutes and 59 seconds.