Circumnavigation world record progression

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This is a list of the fastest circumnavigation, made by a person or team, excluding orbits of Earth from spacecraft.

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People or teamTotal duration (days)Departure dateArrival dateNotesReference
Juan Sebastián Elcano and crew (originally led by Ferdinand Magellan)108220 September 15196 September 1522 Magellan expedition [1]
Francis Drake and crew101813 December 157726 September 1580 Francis Drake's circumnavigation [1]
Thomas Cavendish and crew78121 July 15869 September 1588 Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation [1]
Crew of the Eendracht (originally led by Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire)74814 June 16151 July 1617 [2]
John Byron and crew6762 July 17649 May 1766 [3]
George Simpson 605March 1841October 1842 [4]
Clipper Marco Polo, Captain James "Bully" Forbes.1754 July 185226 December 1852From Liverpool [5] [6]
Clipper Lightning, Captain James "Bully" Forbes.16214 May 185423 October 1854From Liverpool to Liverpool. [7]
This period is incomplete
George Francis Train "80 days" (excluding a month in France)18701870By ships and trains, from New York City, perhaps inspiring Jules Verne [8]
Nellie Bly 7214 November 188925 January 1890Multiple means of transport, inspired by Jules Verne [9]
George Francis Train 67 days, 12 hours, 3 minutes18 March 189024 May 1890By ships and trains, from Tacoma, Washington [8] [10]
George Francis Train 64 days9 May 189112 July 1891By ships and trains, from Fairhaven, Washington [8]
J. Willis Sayre 54 days 9 hours and 42 minutes19031903From Seattle, via Trans-Siberian Railway. [11]
Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, Henry Frederick, John Henry Mears 362 July 19136 August 1913A combination of steamers, yachts, and trains [12]
Linton Wells, Edward S. Evans 28 days 14 hours 36 minutes and 5 seconds19261926A combination of boat, airplane, and trains [13] [14]
John Henry Mears 23 days 15 hours 21 minutes and 3 seconds19281928 [15]
Hugo Eckener 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes8 August 192929 August 1929First circumnavigation in an airship, aboard LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin from Lakehurst, New Jersey [16] [17]
Pilot Wiley Post and navigator Harold Gatty 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes23 June 19311 July 1931 Lockheed Vega aeroplane, travelled 24,903 kilometres (15,474 miles), did not cross equator [18]
Wiley Post 7 days, 19 hours, 49 minutes15 July 193322 July 1933Using an autopilot and radio direction finder, did not cross equator. From New York City [18] [19]
Howard Hughes, navigator Thomas Thurlow, engineer Richard Stoddard, and mechanic Ed Lund3 days, 19 hours, 17 minutes [20] 10 July 193814 July 1938 Lockheed 14 Super Electra (NX18973) New York City; flight operations manager Albert Lodwick [21]
James Gallagher and crew (United States Air Force)94 hours and 1 minute19491949 B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II first aircraft to circle globe non-stop with four in-air refuelings, 37,743 kilometres (23,452 miles), did not cross equator and traveled no further south than the 20-degree parallel. [22]
Col. James Morris [23] and crew (United States Air Force)45 hours and 19 minutesJanuary 16, 1957January 18, 1957 Operation Power Flite , three B-52 bombers, led by Lucky Lady III, supported by at least 76 KC-76 refueling aircraft, 39,147 kilometres (24,325 miles), no equatorial crossing [24] [25]
David Springbett 44 hours and 6 minutes8 January 198010 January 1980Retains record for circumnavigation using only scheduled transportation. [25]
Air France 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds12 October 199213 October 1992 Concorde FAI "Westbound Around the World" world air speed record from Lisbon, Portugal. [26] [27] [28]
Michel Dupont and Claude Hetru (Air France)31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds15 August 199516 August 1995Concorde with 98 passengers and crew, no equatorial crossing. "Eastbound Around the World" world air speed record from John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York. [29] [30]

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People or teamTotal duration (days)Departure dateArrival dateNotesReference
Steve Fossett 13 days, 8 hours, 33 minutes19 June 20023 July 2002 Spirit of Freedom balloon, first solo aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling from Northam, Western Australia [31]
Steve Fossett 67 hours, 1 minute, 10 seconds28 February 20053 March 2005 GlobalFlyer first solo nonstop un-refueled fixed-wing aircraft flight around the world from Salina, Kansas [32] [33] [34]
Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg 5 months9 March 2015Five months later Solar Impulse the first round-the-world solar flight in history. [35]
United States Army Air Service, Lowell H. Smith and Leslie P. Arnold, and Erik H. Nelson and John Harding Jr.175 calendar days, and covered 26,345 miles (42,398 km)17 March 192428 September 1924 First aerial circumnavigation 363 flying hours 7 minutes; two aircraft of four Douglas World Cruisers complete the mission from Sand Point, Seattle, Washington. [36] : 315  [37]
Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, and crewover 2 years31 May 1928June 1930 Southern Cross from Oakland, California [38] [39]
Captain Ford and Crewone month2 December 19416 January 1942 Pan American World Airways' Pacific Clipper the Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat NC-18609(A) the first commercial plane flight to circumnavigate the world from Treasure Island, San Francisco to LaGuardia Field. [40]
Rutan Voyager, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds14 December 198623 December 1986first aircraft to fly around the world without stopping or refueling from Edwards Air Force Base [41]
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones 19 days, 21 hours, and 55 minutes1 March 199921 March 1999 Breitling Orbiter 3 first balloon to fly around the world non-stop from Swiss Alpine village of Château-d'Oex [42]

See also

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