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Originally posted by Rooijen10
March 17, 1942
Two Tachikawa X-1 planes piloted by Juukou Nagatomo and Masaaki Iinuma took off early this morning from Tachikawa Airfield for a trip to Australia. Joining the 10 men of the two planes is Wing commander John Balmer of the Royal Australian Air Force, who will assist with navigation over the vast landscape of Australia.
March 19, 1942
This afternoon, the two X-1 planes returned from their flight to Australia. The non-stop flight took them to Melbourne and back to Tachikawa Airfield via Sidney and Port Moresby, a total distance of 16,770 km. It took the two planes about 58 hours and 11 minutes at an average speed of 288.2 km/h to complete the trip, breaking the flight distance record set in 1938 by two RAF Vickers Wellesleys and becoming the first planes to pass the 10,000 mile mark in a non-stop flight.
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For reference, since I was skeptical, this is the historical aircraft: Tachikawa Ki-77.
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Why fly over Australia? Seems to be kinda pointless saber-rattling to me...
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Damn, must break that record again. *Goes off to the drawing board*
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Incidentally, the X-1 may have been the first airplane to pass the 10,000 mile mark in non-stop flight, but it's not the first air vehicle to do so. One of the Chilean airships logged around 11,800 miles airborne, which can almost certainly be replicated by most of the US and Canadian airships.
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