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List of firsts in aviation
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Stained glass window showing Eilmer of Malmesbury, installed in Malmesbury Abbey in 1920
This is a list of firsts in aviation.
Contents
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1 The forerunners
1.1 First alleged human flights
1.2 First recorded balloon flights
2 Heavier than air; 1853–1947
3 Heavier than air; 1947–present
4 See also
5 Notes and references
6 Bibliography
The forerunners[edit]
First alleged human flights[edit]
In the year 559, several prisoners of Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi, including Yuan Huangtou of Ye, were forced to launch themselves from a tower attached to a kite, as an experiment. Yuan Huangtou was the sole survivor, successfully gliding over the city walls. He was later executed.[1]
Abbas Ibn Firnas (810–887), a Muslim Andalusian polymath, is rumored to have made a successful attempt at flying, according to the account of the historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari seven centuries later. He built his own glider, and launched himself from a mountain.[2]
In the early 11th century (possibly first decade), Eilmer of Malmesbury, an English Benedictine monk, attempted a gliding flight using wings. According to the Gesta Regum Anglorum, Eilmer travelled over a furlong (660 feet, 201 metres) through the air before falling and breaking both his legs, rendering him lame for the rest of his life.[3]
Hezarfen Ahmed Celebi, unpowered gliding flight over the Bosphorus strait from the Galata Tower to Uskudar district in Istanbul between 1630–1632.[4][5]
In 1633, Lagari Hasan Çelebi, brother of Hezarfen Ahmed Celebi launched in a 7-winged rocket using 50 okka (140 lbs) of gunpowder from Sarayburnu, the point below Topkapı Palace in Istanbul.[6][7]
Albrecht Berblinger (dubbed The Tailor from Ulm) is believed to have constructed a primitive hang glider in Ulm, Germany. Urged to make a public demonstration on May 30, 1811, he failed due to limited thermal updrafts over the cold Danube.
First recorded balloon flights[edit]
First recorded manned flight Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes piloted a hot air balloon (built by the Montgolfier brothers) from the Château de la Muette to the Butte-aux-Cailles, Paris, on November 21, 1783.[8][9] This was the first free manned flight; however, de Rozier had flown in a tethered balloon on October 15, 1783.[10]
First manned gas balloon flight: Professor Jacques Charles and Nicolas-Louis Robert flew from Paris to Nesles-la-Vallée in a hydrogen-filled balloon on December 1, 1783.[11]
First women in a flight: The Marchioness and Countess of Montalembert, the Countess of Podenas and Miss de Lagarde ascended in a tethered balloon over Paris, on May 20, 1784.[citation needed]
First woman in an untethered balloon: Élisabeth Thible flew over Lyon singing arias on June 4, 1784, in order to entertain Gustav III of Sweden.[12]
First steerable balloon (or airship): On July 15, 1784, the Robert brothers (Les Frères Robert) flew for 45 minutes from Saint-Cloud to Meudon with M. Collin-Hullin and Louis Philippe II, the Duke of Chartres, in their elongated balloon. The steerable craft, designed by Jacques Charles, followed Jean Baptiste Meusnier's proposals (1783–85) for a dirigible balloon, with a rudder, but the use of oars as a means of propulsion was not successful.[11]
First flight across the English Channel: Jean-Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries crossed the Channel in a balloon on January 7, 1785.[13]
First aviation disaster: On May 10, 1785, the town of Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland, was seriously damaged when the crash of a hot air balloon resulted in a fire that burned down about 100 houses.[14]
First known fatalities in an air crash: Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Pierre Romain died when their Rozière balloon deflated and crashed to the ground near Wimereux in the Pas-de-Calais, on June 15, 1785.[15]
First jump from a balloon with a parachute: Jean-Pierre Blanchard used a parachute in 1793 to escape his hot air balloon when it ruptured.[citation needed]
First successful jump from a balloon with a parachute: Andre Jacques Garnerin in Paris in 1797.[16]
First woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute: Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse jumped from an altitude of 900 metres (3,000 ft) on October 12, 1799.[citation needed]
First woman to pilot her own balloon: Sophie Blanchard flew solo from the garden of the Cloister of the Jacobins in Toulouse on August 18, 1805.[citation needed]
First woman to be killed in an aviation accident: Sophie Blanchard was killed when her hydrogen-filled balloon caught fire and crashed to the ground on July 6, 1819.[17]
First successful steerable powered balloon: The Giffard dirigible was invented by Henri Giffard, who piloted it from the Hippodrome in Paris to Trappes on September 24, 1852.[18]
First balloon mail service: Paris used balloons to pass vital information over Prussian lines during the five-month Siege of Paris in 1870-71.[19]
First tethered balloon for passengers: Developed by Henri Giffard in the Tuileries Garden, Paris, in 1878.[20]
First flight in an airship powered by an internal combustion engine: Alberto Santos Dumont, 1898.[21]
First flight of a rigid airship: Theodor Kober and Ferdinand von Zeppelin's LZ 1 first flew from the Bodensee on July 2, 1900, using a set of seventeen, hydrogen-filled internal gas cells for lift within a light metal structure and powered with a pair of Daimler inline-4 engines of 14 horsepower each.
In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones achieved the first non-stop balloon circumnavigation in Breitling Orbiter 3
First woman to pilot a powered aircraft: Rose Isabel Spencer, in Stanley Spencer's Airship Number 1, at Crystal Palace, London on 14 July 1902.[22][23]
First trans-Atlantic rigid airship flight: The British rigid airship R34 made the first trans-Atlantic flight by a rigid airship from July 2 to July 6, 1919, in a westerly direction from her base at RAF East Fortune to Mineola, New York, the first-ever east-west trans-Atlantic aircraft flight of any type.[24]
First people to reach the stratosphere: Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer ascended to the height of 51,000 feet (15,500 m) in a hydrogen-filled balloon over Augsburg, Germany, on May 27, 1931.[25]
First trans-Pacific solo flight in a balloon: Steve Fossett flew in a helium balloon from Seoul, South Korea, to Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, on February 21, 1995.[26]
First non-stop balloon flight around the Earth: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones flew from Château d'Oex, Switzerland, to Egypt, on board the balloon Breitling Orbiter 3, between March 1 and March 21, 1999, taking a total time of 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes.[27]
First solo non-stop balloon flight around the Earth: Steve Fossett, in the 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom, circumnavigated the globe between June 19 and July 3, 2002.[28]
Heavier than air; 1853–1947[edit]
Otto Lilienthal in mid-flight, c. 1895
First glider flights
First glider flight: In 1853, a glider designed by George Cayley first flew. One report gives John Appleby as the pilot.[29][30][31]
First photographed manned glider flight: Otto Lilienthal, in 1891.[32]
First flight in a powered airplane:
The Wright brothers are widely regarded as the inventors of the first fixed-wing aircraft to achieve sustained, controlled flight, the Wright Flyer. Orville Wright made the first successful flight in this aircraft on December 17, 1903, travelling 120 feet (37 m) at a speed of 6.8 mph (10.9 km/h).[33]
On October 9, 1890, Clément Ader flew uncontrolled for approximately 50 m (160 ft) in the steam-powered Éole.[34]
Gustave Whitehead claimed a flight on August 14, 1901, which was described in detail in a contemporary newspaper article.[35] His claims are dismissed by many aviation historians, as are those of persons who stated decades later that they saw short flights.[36][37]
Richard Pearse is said to have flown a fixed-wing aircraft several hundred meters on March 31, 1903. Pearse himself later denied this claim.[38] Several persons stated decades later that they witnessed or were told of short flights or hops by Pearse in 1903 prior to December, the month the Wrights flew.[39]
First circular flight by a powered airplane: Wilbur Wright flew 4,080 feet (1,244 m) in about a minute and a half on September 20, 1904.[40]
First heavier-than-air flight of more than 25 meters in Europe: On October 23, 1906, Alberto Santos-Dumont, flew a distance of 60 metres (200 ft) in his 14-bis at the Chateau de Bagatelle, Paris, winning the Archdeacon Prize.[41]
First flight certified and registered by Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI): On November 12, 1906, in the presence of official observers from the newly founded FAI, Alberto Santos Dumont flew his 14-bis a distance of 220 metres (720 ft) at the Chateau de Bagatelle, Paris.[42]
First airplane passenger:
Léon Delagrange, with pilot Henri Farman, on March 29, 1908.[43]
Charles Furnas, Wright Company mechanic, in a Wright Flyer III flown by Wilbur Wright on May 14, 1908.[44][45]
The Blériot VIII in flight at Issy-les-Moulineaux, pioleted by Robert Esnault-Pelterie, 1908
First use of the modern aircraft flight control system: Originally devised by French aviator Robert Esnault-Pelterie, in April 1908 Louis Blériot's Blériot VIII first took to the air with Esnault-Pelterie's control layout, using a joystick for elevator/aileron control, and a pivoted foot-bar for rudder control.[46][47]
First person to die in a crash of a powered airplane: Thomas Etholen Selfridge, a passenger on an aircraft piloted by Orville Wright which crashed at Fort Myer on September 17, 1908.[48] Wright was badly injured, and was hospitalised for seven weeks.
First ditching of an airplane in the sea: Hubert Latham, while attempting to complete the first powered flight across the English Channel on July 19, 1909, instead became the first person to perform a water landing when his aircraft suffered engine failure.[49]
First airplane flight across the English Channel: Louis Blériot crossed the Channel on July 25, 1909,[50] winning the Daily Mail prize of £1,000.[51]
First woman to earn a pilot license: Raymonde de Laroche on March 8, 1910.[52][53]
First documented and witnessed seaplane flight under power from water's surface: Henri Fabre, piloting the Fabre Hydravion, at Martigues, France, on March 28, 1910.[54]
First Chief of State to fly on an airplane: Ferdinand I of Bulgaria was a passenger in an aircraft flown by Jules de Laminne on July 15, 1910, during a visit in Belgium.[55]
First mid-air collision between two airplanes: An Antoinette monoplane, piloted by Rene Thomas, rammed Bertram Dickson's Farman biplane on October 1, 1910.[56][57]
First shipboard take-off and landing by an airplane: Eugene Burton Ely, in a Curtiss pusher, took off from a temporary platform aboard light cruiser USS Birmingham on November 14, 1910.[58] Ely was also the first to land an airplane on a ship, touching down on a temporary platform aboard armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania on January 11, 1911.[59]
The first non-stop flight from London to Paris: Pierre Prier on 12 April 1911 in 3 hours and 56 minutes.[60]
First woman to die in a crash of a powered airplane: Denise Moore, on July 21, 1911.[61]
First flight across the Continental Divide of the Americas: Cromwell Dixon flew over the Rocky Mountains in a Curtiss pusher on September 30, 1911, reaching an altitude of 7,100 feet.[62]
Armour Company poster showing Calbraith Perry Rodgers's Vin Fiz Flyer transcontinental flight route, autumn 1911
First ordnance deployment from an airplane: Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti released explosive grenades from his Etrich Taube airplane against Ottoman troops in Libya on 1 November 1911.[63]
First transcontinental flight across North America: Calbraith Perry Rodgers piloted the Wright Model EX pusher biplane, the Vin Fiz Flyer through a seventy-plus-stop cross-country flight from his departure from Sheepshead Bay, New York on September 17, 1911, flying westwards across the United States to arrive in Long Beach, California by December 10, 1911.[64]
First parachute jump from an airplane:
Grant Morton, according to some sources, jumped from a Wright Model B over Venice, California, in 1911.[65][66]
Albert Berry jumped from a Benoist biplane over Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, on March 1, 1912.[67] Berry is generally considered to have been the first to jump from an airplane, notwithstanding Morton's claim.[65]
First night mission: Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti in campaign against Ottoman Empire on 4 March 1912 [68]
First woman to fly across the English Channel: Harriet Quimby flew from Dover to Hardelot-Plage on April 16, 1912.[69]
First airplane flight across the Irish Sea: Denys Corbett Wilson took off from Goodwick in Wales in his Bleriot XI and landed at Enniscorthy in Ireland 100 minutes later, on April 22, 1912.[70]
First take-off by an airplane from a moving ship: Commander Charles R. Samson took off from a temporary platform aboard battleship HMS Hibernia in a Short Improved S.27 No. 38, on May 9, 1912.[71]
First bombing attack against a surface ship: Didier Masson and Captain Joaquín Bauche Alcalde, flying for Mexican Revolutionist Venustiano Carranza, dropped dynamite bombs on Federalist gunboats at Guaymas, Mexico, on May 10, 1913.[72]
First air drop of propaganda leaflets: Didier Masson, flying for the Mexican Revolutionist Venustiano Carranza, post May 10, 1913.[72]
First pilot to fly a loop: Pyotr Nesterov in a Nieuport IV, on September 9, 1913.[73]
First flight across the Mediterranean Sea: Roland Garros flew from the South of France to Tunisia, on September 23, 1913.[74]
First dogfight: Dean Ivan Lamb (flying a Curtiss pusher) and Phil Rader (in a Christopherson biplane) fired pistol shots at each other while airborne, during the Siege of Naco, Mexico. This incident took place sometime around November/December 1913; the exact date is unknown.[75]
First scheduled commercial flight using winged aircraft: On January 1, 1914, Tony Jannus piloted the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line with a Benoist XIV biplane flying-boat, carrying former St. Petersburg mayor Abraham C. Pheill as its first paying passenger. The flight from St. Petersburg to Tampa took 23 minutes, and was repeated twice daily, six days a week, until May 5, 1914.[76]
First flights by a mostly-metal aircraft: In May 1914, Vlaicu III, an aircraft with metal body and canvas wings, was completed in Romania and managed to fly a distance of 200–300 meters at an altitude of 2 meters.[77]
First flight across the North Sea: On July 30, 1914, Tryggve Gran flew from Cruden Bay in Scotland to Jæren in Norway, a distance of 320 miles (510 km), in 4 hours and 10 minutes.[78]
First aircraft shot down by ground fire: On 20. Aug 1914. during a reconnaissance mission, a Lohner B.I with a painted nickname "Bub" of the Fliegerkompagnie 13 of the Austro Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops was damaged by small arms fire of the infantry of the Combined Division of the Royal Serbian Army and forced to land near Lešnica, Serbia on the Serbian-held territory during the Battle of Cer. The pilot, Artur Schlett managed to avoid capture and reach the Austro-Hungarian troops. The airplane was captured by the Serbs who made great effort to repair it and include it in their own "Aircraft Command", but without success.
First aircraft intentionally downed by another aircraft: A Russian Morane-Saulnier G flown by Pyotr Nesterov rammed an Austrian Albatros B.II reconnaissance aircraft operated by observer Baron Friedrich von Rosenthal and pilot Franz Malina from FLIK 11 on September 7, 1914. Both aircraft were destroyed and all three individuals died.[79]
First aircraft to shoot down another aircraft: A French Voisin III, piloted by Sergeant Joseph Frantz and Corporal Louis Quénault, engaged a German Aviatik B.II near Rheims on October 5, 1914. After expending all of his machine-gun ammunition, Quénault shot the German pilot (Wilhelm Schlichting) with his rifle, causing the Aviatik to crash.[80]
First shooting down of a military aircraft with ground-to-air fire: During Italo-Turkish War in 1912 Turks shot an aeroplane by rifle.[81]
First shooting down of a military aircraft with ground-to-air artillery fire: Serbian Army private Radoje Ljutovac shot an Austro-Hungarian aircraft with a cannon on 30 September 1915, during a bombing raid on Kragujevac.[82][83]
First female military pilot: Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya was a reconnaissance pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Service, having been ordered to active service on November 19, 1914.[84]
The actual E.5/15 aircraft used by Kurt Wintgens in his pioneering aerial engagement on July 1, 1915, as it appeared at the time of the engagement
First aerial victory for a fighter aircraft armed with a forward-firing synchronized machine gun: Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe air service, while serving with its Feldflieger Abteilung 6b squadron flying a production prototype (M.5K/MG) of the Fokker E.I Eindecker, downed a French Morane-Saulnier L "Parasol" near Lunéville, France, on July 1, 1915.[85][86]
First female fighter pilot: According to Guinness World Records, Sabiha Gökçen.[87] However, others such as Marie Marvingt in 1915 [88][89] or Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya[90][91][92] preceded her as military pilots in other roles, probably without a military academy enrollment.
First aerial torpedo attack on a ship: Charles Edmonds, flying a Short 184, torpedoed and sunk a Turkish supply ship in the Sea of Marmara on August 12, 1915. The ship was abandoned, having been crippled by a British submarine four days earlier.[93][94]
First combat search and rescue by airplane: Richard Bell Davies rescued a comrade who had been shot down in Bulgaria on November 19, 1915.[95]
First medical evacuation (medevac) by air: Louis Paulhan evacuated the seriously ill Milan Stefanik from the Serbian front in 1915.[96]
First black military pilot: Ahmet Ali Çelikten a.k.a. Arap Ahmet Ali was the first black military pilot in the history, served in Ottoman Aviation Squadrons from 1914 or 1915.[97][98][99] His grandmother came from Bornu (now in Nigeria) to the Ottoman Empire as a slave.[72][100]
The Junkers J 1, the world's first airworthy all-metal aircraft (1915-16)
First flights by an all-metal aircraft: The Junkers J 1 pioneering all-metal demonstrator aircraft was flown on several flight trials starting on 12 December 1915 through to 19 January 1916, by both Gefreiter Paul Arnold and Leutnant Theodor Mallinckrodt on separate occasions, with the J 1 attaining altitudes up to 900 meters (3,000 ft) and airspeeds up to 170 km/h (110 mph).[101]
First landing by an airplane on a moving ship: Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning, in a Sopwith Pup, landed on HMS Furious on August 2, 1917.[102]
First flight by an airplane across the Andes: Luis Candelaria flew from Zapala, Argentina, to Cunco, Chile, on April 13, 1918; reaching an altitude of 4,000 meters.[103]
First flight across the Andes for its top mountains, Chile - Argentina: Teniente Dagoberto Godoy, on December 12, 1918. Made the crossing on a Bristol M.1C and was awarded by a bi-national Chilean-Argentinian prize. Reach an altitude of more 6.300 meters, without oxygen supply.
First non-stop transatlantic flight: John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a modified Vickers Vimy from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Ireland, on June 14–15, 1919. They were awarded a Daily Mail prize of £10,000, and both men were knighted by King George V.[104]
First England to Australia flight: Keith Macpherson Smith and Ross Macpherson Smith (plus mechanics Sergeant W.H. (Wally) Shiers and J.M. (Jim) Bennett) completed the journey from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome to Darwin in a Vickers Vimy on December 10, 1919, winning a prize of £A10,000.[105]
First African-American woman to obtain a pilot's license: Bessie Coleman on June 15, 1921.[106]
First aerial crossing of the South Atlantic: Artur de Sacadura Cabral and Gago Coutinho flew from Lisbon, Portugal, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between March 30 and June 17, 1922.[107] The first to use astronomical navigation (and to rely solely on it during the crossing), with an artificial horizon for aeronautical use.[108][109]
First aerial refueling: An Airco DH.4B biplane of the United States Army Air Service successfully refuelled another DH.4B in mid-air on June 27, 1923.[110]
First Portugal to China flight: Sarmento de Beires and Brito Pais flew from Vila Nova de Milfontes, Alentejo, to Canton, between April 7 and June 20, 1924.[111][112]
First aerial circumnavigation: A pair of Douglas World Cruisers of the United States Army Air Service completed an aerial circumnavigation of the world starting and ending in Seattle Washington, between April 6 and September 28, 1924.[113]
First solo non-stop transatlantic flight: Charles Lindbergh, flying the Spirit of St. Louis, made the 33-hour journey from New York to Paris on May 20–21, 1927, winning the Orteig Prize.[114]
First transpacific flight from U.S. mainland to Hawaii: U.S. Army lieutenants Albert Francis Hegenberger and Lester J. Maitland flew from California to Hawaii in the Bird of Paradise, a C-2 transport, on June 28–29, 1927.[115]
First female airline pilot: Marga von Etzdorf was hired by Lufthansa in 1927.[116] One year later, Mary, Lady Heath, was hired by KLM.
First transpacific flight to Australia: Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, in the Southern Cross, flew from Oakland, California, to Brisbane, Australia, between May 31 and June 9, 1928.[117]
First woman to fly across the Atlantic (as passenger): Amelia Earhart was flown by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon, in a Fokker F.VII, from Trepassey, Newfoundland, to Burry Port, Wales, on June 17, 1928.[118]
First successful trans-Tasman flight: Charles Kingsford Smith and crew, in the Southern Cross, flew from Richmond, New South Wales, to Christchurch, New Zealand, on September 9–10, 1928, becoming the first airplane pilots to successfully cross the Tasman Sea.[119]
First solo trans-Tasman flight: Guy Menzies, flying an Avro Avian named the Southern Cross Junior, took off from Sydney on January 7, 1931, and crash-landed in a swamp near Hari Hari, New Zealand, nearly twelve hours later.[120]
First nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean: Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon flew Miss Veedol from Samushiro, Japan, to Wenatchee, Washington, on October 4–5, 1931. The journey took 41 hours, 13 minutes.[121]
First female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean: Amelia Earhart, in a Lockheed Vega 5B, flew from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Culmore, Ireland, on May 20, 1932.[122]
First successful single-lift rotor helicopter: Alexei Cheremukhin and Boris Yuriev's TsAGI-1EA, which flew to a record altitude of 605 meters (1,985 ft) on August 14, 1932.[123][124]
First flight over the world's highest peak, Mount Everest: Lord Clydesdale and David McIntyre, in Westland's PV-3 and PV-6 respectively, flew over Everest on April 3, 1933.[125]
First flight by a liquid-fueled rocket-powered aircraft: The Heinkel He 176, piloted by Erich Warsitz, made its maiden flight on June 20, 1939.[126]
First flight by a turbojet-powered aircraft: The Heinkel He 178, piloted by Erich Warsitz, made its maiden flight on August 27, 1939.[127]
First aerial combat engagement with a jet fighter: The Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a twin-jet fighter, Werknummer (serial number) 130 017 flown by Leutnant Alfred Schreiber, serving with the Ekdo 262 service test unit at Lechfeld Air Base, Bavaria, engaged an RAF de Havilland Mosquito twin-piston engined reconnaissance aircraft of 540 Squadron on July 26, 1944, in an inconclusive combat sortie.[128]
First combat sortie by any rocket-powered military aircraft: Major Wolfgang Späte flew the Messerschmitt Me 163B V41 Komet interceptor aircraft of the EK 16 service test unit from Bad Zwischenahn in northwest Germany on May 13, 1944.[129]
Heavier than air; 1947–present[edit]
First human to break the sound barrier: Chuck Yeager first exceeded the speed of sound in level flight in a Bell X-1 on October 14, 1947.[130]
First nonstop around-the-world flight: B-50A Superfortress Lucky Lady II, commanded by Capt. James Gallagher, flew around the world from 26 February to 2 March 1949, taking off and landing at Carswell AFB, Texas. The Superfortress refuelled inflight four times from KB-29M tankers.[131]
First British all-female airline flight crew: An all-female crew, captained by Caroline Frost, flew for British Air Ferries from Southend to Düsseldorf on October 31, 1977.[132]
First supersonic scheduled passenger flights: Concorde, the world's first supersonic passenger transport, made two simultaneous maiden flights – from London to Bahrain, and from Paris to Rio de Janeiro – on January 21, 1976.[133]
First non-stop, un-refueled fixed-wing aircraft flight around the Earth: Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, aboard the Rutan Model 76 Voyager, December 14–23, 1986. The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds.[133]
First American all-female jet airliner flight crew: Beverley Bass captained an all-female crew on an American Airlines flight from Washington D.C. to Dallas, Texas on December 30, 1986.[134]
First deployment of an FAA-certified whole-plane parachute recovery system: Scott D. Anderson successfully flew all 7 inflight test deployments of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS). The tests were done in a Cirrus SR20 during the summer of 1998; the plane became type certified in October of that year.[135][136][137]
The GlobalFlyer that Steve Fossett piloted around the world, arriving at the Kennedy Space Center, 2006
First solo non-stop fixed-wing aircraft flight around the Earth: Steve Fossett flew from Salina, Kansas, eastbound and back, on a Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, between February 28 and March 3, 2005, taking a total time of 67 hours.[138]
First piloted overnight solar-powered flight in a fixed-wing aircraft: Andre Borschberg piloted the Solar Impulse 1 for a continuous flight of more than 24 hours, between 7 July and 8 July 2010.[139]
First piloted non-stop solar-powered transatlantic flight: Bertrand Piccard flew from New York City to Seville in the Solar Impulse 2 between 20 June and 23 June 2016.[140]
First circumnavigation of the world by a piloted fixed-wing aircraft using only solar power: Solar Impulse 2 between March 2015 and July 2016; Borschberg and Piccard alternated piloting stages of the journey.[141]
See also[edit]
Australian aviation firsts
Circumnavigation
Firsts in human spaceflight
Timeline of women in aviation
Notes and references[edit]
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Founded
2017
History
Vegas Golden Knights
2017–present
Home arena
T-Mobile Arena
City
Paradise, Nevada
Colors
Steel grey, gold, red, black[1][2]
Media
AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain (TV)
KRLV (Fox Sports 1340/98.9) (English radio)
KENO (ESPN Deportes 1460) (Spanish radio)
Owner(s)
Bill Foley (70%)[3]
Maloof family (30%)
General manager
George McPhee
Head coach
Gerard Gallant
Captain
Vacant
Minor league affiliates
Chicago Wolves (AHL)
Quad City Mallards (ECHL)
Stanley Cups
0
Conference championships
0
Presidents' Trophy
0
Division championships
1 (2017–18)
Official website
nhl.com/goldenknights
The Vegas Golden Knights are a professional ice hockey team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The team began play in the 2017–18 NHL season, and is a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). The team is owned by Black Knight Sports & Entertainment, a consortium led by Bill Foley,[4] and plays its home games at T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.[5]
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Background and establishment
1.2 Start of operations: 2017–present
2 Team information
2.1 Team name
2.2 Logos and colors
2.3 Mascot
3 Players and personnel
3.1 Current roster
3.2 Retired numbers
3.3 Head coaches
3.4 General managers
4 Media
5 References
6 External links
History[edit]
Background and establishment[edit]
The NHL has had a presence in Las Vegas since 1991, when an outdoor game was held in Las Vegas, with the Los Angeles Kings facing the New York Rangers outside Caesars Palace in a preseason exhibition game. The city has since hosted the Frozen Fury, a pre-season competition between the Los Angeles Kings and the Colorado Avalanche, and the NHL Awards ceremonies have been held in Las Vegas since 2009.[6] In 2009, the media speculated about a plan involving Hollywood producer Jerry Bruckheimer to move the Phoenix Coyotes to Nevada.[7]
Rumors of a Las Vegas expansion team surfaced again in August 2014, pointing to a new indoor arena on the Strip (built as a joint venture between Anschutz Entertainment Group, owners of the Los Angeles Kings, and MGM Resorts International) as the potential home arena, although these rumors were denied by the league.[8][9][10] In November 2014, an unconfirmed report stated that the league had selected billionaire businessman Bill Foley and the Maloof family (former owners of the National Basketball Association's Sacramento Kings, and founders of the Palms Casino Resort) to lead the ownership group for a Las Vegas expansion team.[11][12] In December 2014, the NHL's board of governors decided to allow Foley to hold a season ticket drive to gauge interest in a Las Vegas team, though league commissioner Gary Bettman also warned the media to "[not] make more out of this than it is".[13][14] The season ticket drive began in February 2015, with interested parties placing ten percent deposits for the 2016–17 season.[15] The drive drew 5,000 deposits in its first day and a half, and reached its goal of 10,000 deposits by April 2015.[15][16]
In June 2015, the league officially opened the window for prospective owners to bid on expansion teams. By this point, Foley had secured more than 13,200 season-ticket deposits. Two expansion applications were submitted: Foley's application for a Las Vegas team, and a bid from Quebecor to revive the Quebec Nordiques at a new arena in Quebec City. Both Las Vegas and Quebec were invited to move into Phase II of the league expansion bid in August 2015,[17] and subsequently advanced to Phase III.
At the league owners' meeting on June 22, 2016, in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas expansion bid was approved by a unanimous vote, with play to begin in the 2017–18 NHL season.[18] The team became the first major professional sports franchise to be based in Las Vegas, and the first NHL expansion team since 2000.[19] Foley committed to pay the league's $500 million expansion fee[20] and began the process of hiring the team's principal staff and determining its official identity. Foley announced that former Washington Capitals general manager George McPhee would be the franchise's first general manager.[21] On November 22, 2016, the name was revealed as the Vegas Golden Knights.
Start of operations: 2017–present[edit]
On March 1, 2017 (coinciding with the league's trade deadline), the team completed its expansion fee payments and filings, making it eligible to formally begin operations such as free agent acquisition, and participation in league meetings.[22] Five days later, the Golden Knights made its first personnel move by signing Reid Duke to a three-year entry-level contract.[23][24]
Gerard Gallant coaching the Golden Knights during their inaugural 2017–18 season. Gallant was named as the head coach in April 2017.
The team announced inaugural head coach Gerard Gallant on April 13, 2017.[25] Over the next two months, the Golden Knights developed their farm system, announcing affiliations with the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League and the Quad City Mallards of the ECHL.[26][27]
The team participated in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft on June 21, 2017, selecting an available player from all 30 teams in the NHL. The draft picks were announced at T-Mobile Arena during the NHL Awards ceremony. Some notable selections included goalie Marc-Andre Fleury from the Pittsburgh Penguins and winger James Neal from the Nashville Predators. At the 2017 NHL Entry Draft, Cody Glass was the first player selected by the Golden Knights. The Golden Knights played their first game on October 6 against the Dallas Stars with Neal scoring the franchise's first two goals en route to their first victory.[28]
The team's inaugural home game was played on October 10, 2017, hosting the Arizona Coyotes as the second game of a home-and-home series. In the aftermath of the October 1 mass shooting, the pre-game ceremonies honored the victims of the attack, and the team issued an appeal for donations to its charitable arm.[29] With their 5–2 win, the Golden Knights increased their unbeaten streak to start the season to 3–0, an NHL record for an expansion team.[30][31][32] The Golden Knights are the first team in NHL history to have started their inaugural season winning eight of their first nine games. During their tenth game, goaltender Oscar Dansk was injured becoming third Golden Knights' goaltender to be injured during the season after losing starters Fleury and the recently acquired Malcolm Subban, forcing the team to start a fourth goaltender in 11 games with Maxime Lagace.[33] Fifteen games into the season, Vadim Shipachyov became the first player to retire from the NHL as a Golden Knight when he decided to return to the Kontinental Hockey League. In December, the Golden Knights set another NHL expansion team record of six straight wins, a record they had previously missed when they lost their tenth game of the season, and established a new NHL record with eight straight wins.[34][35][36] On February 1, 2018, the Golden Knights set the expansion team record for wins in a debut season with 34 wins after only 50 games,[37] and then on February 21, 2018, set a record for most points by an expansion team in the inaugural season with 84.[38] On March 26, the Golden Knights became the first team since the Edmonton Oilers and Hartford Whalers in the 1979–80 season to make the playoffs in their inaugural season in the league.[39] On March 31, the Knights clinched the Pacific Division title, becoming the first true expansion team in the four major sports to win its division in its inaugural season (not counting all-expansion divisions, as was the case in the 1967–68 season).[40] They had led the Pacific since December 23.
Team information[edit]
Team name[edit]
The team's name includes "Knights" as a homage to the Black Knights of the United States Military Academy, Foley's alma mater, and because knights were, according to Foley, "the epitome of the warrior class".[41][42] Foley had hoped to name his team the Black Knights, but dropped that plan after encountering resistance from federal officials. Foley was unable call the team the "Vegas Knights" due to the London Knights owning the "Knights" name in Canada.[42][43][44]
"Golden" was included in the name because gold is, as Foley stated, the "No. 1 precious metal", and because Nevada is the largest gold-producing state in the country.[42][45]
"Las" was omitted from the team's name because, according to Foley, residents tend to refer to the city simply as "Vegas", and because a four-word name would have been too long.[45]
The United States Army initially expressed concern after the Golden Knights' name was announced, because their parachute team uses the same nickname.[43] The Army later disputed the trademark and colors of the team during its first season, to which the team responded: "We are not aware of a single complaint from anyone attending our games that they were expecting to see the parachute team and not a professional hockey game."[46] An objection was also raised by the College of Saint Rose because its sports teams use the same name; the Vegas team's initial trademark application was denied as a result, but was later approved on appeal.[47] The team did clear the name with Clarkson University, which also uses the name Golden Knights.[48]
The team's secondary logo
Logos and colors[edit]
The team's primary logo is a barbute helmet, superimposed on a black and gold seal, with a V-shaped opening.[41][45]
The secondary logo is two crossing swords behind a red star, designed to resemble a star found on the landmark Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign.[45]
The team's primary color is steel gray, which is said to represent "strength and durability".[45][1] The other team colors are gold, red (found in the Las Vegas skyline and at Red Rock Canyon), and black (for "power and intensity").[1]
Mascot[edit]
The Golden Knights' mascot is a Gila monster named Chance. He was unveiled at the team's second home game on October 13, 2017.[49][50] The team opted against using a knight for a mascot because it found that knight mascots used by other teams were not very child-friendly.[51]
Players and personnel[edit]
Main article: List of Vegas Golden Knights players
Current roster[edit]
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Updated March 22, 2018.[52][53]
#
Nat
Player
Pos
S/G
Age
Acquired
Birthplace
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France ! Bellemare, Pierre-EdouardPierre-Edouard Bellemare 6.0 !LW L 33 2017 Le Blanc-Mesnil, France
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United States ! Carpenter, RyanRyan Carpenter 4.3 !C/RW R 27 2017 Oviedo, Florida
7001280000000000000♠28
Canada ! Carrier, WilliamWilliam Carrier 6.0 !LW L 23 2017 LaSalle, Quebec
7001210000000000000♠21
Canada ! Eakin, CodyCody Eakin 4.0 !C L 26 2017 Winnipeg, Manitoba
7000500000000000000♠5
Canada ! Engelland, DerykDeryk Engelland (A) 2.0 !D R 36 2017 Edmonton, Alberta
7001290000000000000♠29
Canada ! Fleury, Marc-AndreMarc-Andre Fleury 1.0 !G L 33 2017 Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
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Finland ! Haula, ErikErik Haula 6.0 !LW L 27 2017 Pori, Finland
7001770000000000000♠77
Canada ! Hunt, BradBrad Hunt 2.0 !D L 29 2017 Maple Ridge, British Columbia
7001710000000000000♠71
Sweden ! Karlsson, WilliamWilliam Karlsson 4.0 !C L 24 2017 Märsta, Sweden
7001240000000000000♠24
Sweden ! Lindberg, OscarOscar Lindberg 4.0 !C L 26 2017 Skellefteå, Sweden
7001810000000000000♠81
Canada ! Marchessault, JonathanJonathan Marchessault 4.0 !C R 27 2017 Cap-Rouge, Quebec
7000300000000000000♠3
Canada ! McNabb, BraydenBrayden McNabb 2.0 !D L 27 2017 Davidson, Saskatchewan
7001150000000000000♠15
United States ! Merrill, JonJon Merrill 2.0 !D L 26 2017 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
7000600000000000000♠6
Canada ! Miller, ColinColin Miller 2.0 !D R 25 2017 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
7001180000000000000♠18
Canada ! Neal, JamesJames Neal (A) 7.0 !RW L 30 2017 Whitby, Ontario
7001920000000000000♠92
Czech Republic ! Nosek, TomasTomas Nosek 4.0 !C L 25 2017 Pardubice, Czechoslovakia
7001570000000000000♠57
Canada ! Perron, DavidDavid Perron (A) 6.0 !LW R 29 2017 Sherbrooke, Quebec
7001750000000000000♠75
Canada ! Reaves, RyanRyan Reaves 7.0 !RW R 31 2018 Winnipeg, Manitoba
7001470000000000000♠47
Switzerland ! Sbisa, LucaLuca Sbisa (A) 2.0 !D L 28 2017 Ozieri, Italy
7001880000000000000♠88
United States ! Schmidt, NateNate Schmidt 2.0 !D L 26 2017 St. Cloud, Minnesota
7001190000000000000♠19
Canada ! Smith, ReillyReilly Smith (A) 7.0 !RW L 27 2017 Etobicoke, Ontario
7000400000000000000♠4
Canada ! Stoner, ClaytonClayton Stoner 2.0 !D L 33 2017 Port McNeill, British Columbia
7001300000000000000♠30
Canada ! Subban, MalcolmMalcolm Subban 1.0 !G L 24 2017 Toronto, Ontario
7001900000000000000♠90
Slovakia ! Tatar, TomasTomas Tatar 6.0 !LW L 27 2018 Ilava, Czechoslovakia
7001270000000000000♠27
Canada ! Theodore, SheaShea Theodore 2.0 !D L 22 2017 Langley, British Columbia
7001890000000000000♠89
United States ! Tuch, AlexAlex Tuch 7.0 !RW R 21 2017 Syracuse, New York
7000200000000000000♠2
Canada ! Whitecloud, ZachZach Whitecloud 2.0 !D R 21 2018 Brandon, Manitoba

Retired numbers[edit]
The #58 was retired by the team on March 31, 2018 in honor of the 58 victims killed in the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.[54]
The team is also not able to issue the jersey number #99 to any of its players as that number was retired league-wide in honor of Wayne Gretzky at the 2000 NHL All-Star Game.[55]
Head coaches[edit]
Gerard Gallant (2017–present)
General managers[edit]
George McPhee (2016[56]–present)
Media[edit]
AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain (formerly Root Sports) is the regional television rightsholder for all Golden Knights games not broadcast nationally by NBCSN or NBC. The team's designated market includes Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and parts of Arizona and California.[57][58][59] Golden Knights games on AT&T SportsNet are called by former Boston Bruins radio announcer Dave Goucher on play-by-play, and Shane Hnidy, who previously worked color for the Winnipeg Jets on TSN.[60]
The team has a three-year radio deal with Lotus Broadcasting.[61] Lotus airs the team's games on its Fox Sports Radio affiliate, KRLV 1340/98.9.[61] KRLV fronts a network of nine stations across Nevada, California, Arizona, and Utah.[62]
One game a week is also aired on the company's ESPN Deportes Radio affiliate, KENO 1460, making the team one of only three in the NHL to offer Spanish-language broadcasts.[63]
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