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Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones

In March 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones achieve the first round-the-world flight in a balloon, aboard the Breitling Orbiter III, from March 1 to March 21 1999.

Maryse Bastié

Maryse Bastié, France, is the first holder of an FAI women's record.

Sub-Class	Type of Record	Performance	Date	Claimant	Status	Id
C	Duration	26 h 47 mn 30 sec	1929-07-28	Bastie (FRA)	ratified - superseded since approved	10446
FAI Record File Num #10446 Status: ratified - superseded since approved Region: World Class: C (Powered Aeroplanes) Category: Feminine Group: Not applicable Type of record: Duration Performance: 26 h 47 mn 30 sec Date: 1929-07-28 Course/Location: Le Bourget (France) Claimant Maryse Bastie (FRA) Aeroplane: Caudron C-109 Engine: 1 Salmson AD9 Images:

Pateras Pescara

First rotorcraft record logged by the FAI: on April 18 1924, in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, the Marquis de Perscara, on board a twin-rotor craft of his own invention equipped with a Hispano-Suiza engien, covered a distance of 736 meters in a straight line.

Sub-Class	Type of Record	Performance	Date	Claimant	Status	Id
E former G	Straight distance	736 m	1924-04-18	Pescara (FRA)	ratified - superseded since approved	13094
FAI Record File Num #13094 Status: ratified - superseded since approved Region: World Class: E (Rotorcraft) Category: General Group: 1 : piston engine Type of record: Straight distance Performance: 736 m Date: 1924-04-18 Course/Location: Issy les Moulineaux (France) Claimant Pateras Pescara (FRA) Rotorcraft: Pescara Pescara 2F Engine: 1 Hispano-Suiza 8 Ac Images: Documents:

Ramón Morillas Salmeron

Ramón Morillas Salmeron flew 1105 km from Jerez, Cadiz (Spain) to Lanzarote, Canaries (Spain) with an Advance Omega 7 paraglider.

Sub-Class	Type of Record	Performance	Date	Claimant	Status	Id
RPF1Tm	Distance in a straight line without landing	1 105.0 km	2007-04-23	Morillas Salmeron (ESP)	ratified - current record	14613
FAI Record File Num #14613 Status: ratified - current record Region: World Class: R (Microlights) Category: Not applicable Group: Not applicable Type of record: Distance in a straight line without landing Performance: 1 105.0 km Date: 2007-04-23 Course/Location: Jerez, Cadix (Spain) - Lanzarote, Canaries (Spain) Claimant Ramón Morillas Salmeron (ESP) Microlight: Advance Omega 7 Engine(s): PAP ROS 1450 Images: Documents: Volkslogger Garmin MLR

Yuri Gagarine

On April 12, 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in Vostok 1 (Vostok 3KA-3) on a flight lasting 108 minutes and became the first human being to leave the confines of the Earth's atmosphere.

F22 over alps