Firsts in around-the-world flight

1924 — First to fly around world: Four Douglas World Cruiser aircraft with eight US crewmen set out from Seattle, Washington. Three of the aircraft completed the circuit in 175 days. 1933 — First solo trip: Wiley Post from the United States takes 7 days, 18 hours to accomplish the feat. 1 949 — First nonstop: US Air Force team completes the circuit in 94 hours, 1 minute. Their plane was refueled in flight four times. 1964 — First woman solo: Geraldine Mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world. Her single-engine Cessna 180 was called the Spirit of Columbus. 1986 — First nonstop, non-refueling flight: Voyager, a lightweight aircraft with a front canard wing, was flown by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. They made the trip in 9 days, 3 minutes, 44 seconds. 2011 — First Chinese men’s solo: Chen Wei from Changsha, Hunan province, became the first male Chinese pilot to circumnavigate the globe in a Socata TBM 700 single-engine turboprop.