Interesting facts about aerospace?

The earliest cross-Channel flight over the English Channel was on July 25, 1909. Frenchman Louis Brériot (1872-1936) flew a homemade monoplane "Brériot The aircraft took off, crossed the English Channel, and landed on a grassy field near Dovercastle, England, which lasted 37 minutes.

Flight across the Pacific The world's first flight across the Pacific took place from May 31 to June 9, 1928. The flight was piloted by American pilot Charles Kingsford, Elm. Radio operator Harry Lyon and radio operator James Warner *** completed it together. They flew a Fokker fVⅡ?3M aircraft named "Southern Cross" from Oakland Airport in California, USA, passing through Honolulu, Hawaii, Suva, Fiji, and arriving in Elol, Australia. Fam. The flight range is 11,891 kilometers and the flight time is 83 hours and 38 minutes. The first non-stop flight across the Pacific was completed by major pilots Clyde Vanborn and Hugh Hearn. From October 3rd to 5th, 1931, they flew a monoplane with a sealed cockpit named "Miss Vittor" from Lindai Beach, Japan to Wenatchee, Washington. It flew 7335.38 kilometers in 41 hours and 13 minutes.

The longest range: On March 16, 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, then the former Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, announced in Moscow that the Soviet Union had an "intercontinental rocket" with a range of approximately 30,580 meters kilometers (larger than half the circumference of the Earth) and can hit any target on the Earth from any direction.

The first artificial satellite On the night of October 4, 1957, at the Tyuratam launch site 273.6 kilometers east of the Aral Sea, the former Soviet Union successfully sent the first artificial satellite into the track. The orbital altitude of the satellite is 228.5/946 kilometers, and the speed reaches 28565.1 kilometers/hour. This spherical satellite was named "Sputnik 1" and its international code was "1957A2 Satellite". It weighed 83.6 kilograms and had a diameter of 579 millimeters. It operated in space for 92 days and ended its flight on January 4, 1958. . This satellite was designed under the guidance of Dr. Sergei Korolev (1907?1966).

The first transport vehicle on an alien planet to land on the moon was the unmanned "Lunokhod 1" carried by the Soviet "Lunar 17" probe. On November 17, 1970, the lunar rover began its ground-controlled lunar walk. On the sloped lunar surface, it traveled 10.5 kilometers.

The first astronaut, Colonel h.A. Gagarin, a former Soviet citizen, was born on March 9, 1934.

On April 12, 1961, he piloted the "Vostok 1" spacecraft and completed mankind's first manned space flight. Died in flight training accident on March 27, 1968.

The first female astronaut, Lieutenant Colonel B.B. Tereshkova (former Soviet Union), was born on March 6, 1937. From June 16 to 19, 1963, she piloted the Vostok 6 spacecraft, orbiting the earth 48 times, with a range of about 2 million kilometers.

The first man to set foot on the moon, n.A. Armstrong (USA), was born on August 5, 1930.

On July 21, 1969, he stepped out of the lunar module of the "Apollo 11" spacecraft and stepped onto the moon, becoming the first person to set foot on the moon.

The first female astronaut to walk in space, c.E. Savitskaya (former Soviet Union), was born on August 4, 1948. On July 25, 1984, she made an extravehicular activity from the Salyut 7 space station for about 3.5 hours, becoming the first female astronaut in the world to walk in space.

The first male astronaut to walk without a tether in space, Navy Captain Bruce McCandless (USA). Born in 1938. When he was aboard the Challenger space shuttle on February 7, 1984, he wore a spacesuit with a control device and walked freely in space for 95 minutes without a safety rope. Female astronaut Dr. Katherine Sullivan (USA) was born in 1952. When she was aboard the Challenger space shuttle in 1984, she walked freely in space alone.

The largest airport in the world is King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The airport covers an area of ??222.74 square kilometers and costs 2.625 billion US dollars. It was put into use on November 14, 1983. The control tower in the airport is 74.07 meters high, ranking highest in the world.

The Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas, USA, currently has 6 runways and 5 terminals. It plans to transform it into 9 runways, 13 terminals, 260 passages, and can accommodate A large airport with 150 million passengers.

The world's largest airport waiting room is the Hartsfield Atlanta Airport waiting room, which was put into use on September 21, 1980. It covers an area of ??2043.7 acres and has 138 passages. It can It has transported nearly 50 million passengers.

And it has the capacity to transport 75 million passengers.

The longest runway in the world is 11,265 meters long (4,572 meters of which are concrete pavement). The runway belongs to Edwards Air Force Base on the bed of Rogers Dry Lake in Murocco, California. The entire test center airport covers an area of ??168.35 square kilometers. In case of emergency, the 19-kilometer long strip beside the dry lake bed can also be used as an emergency runway.

The fastest helicopter in the world is developed by Westland Linnex.

On August 11, 1986, 53-year-old Trevor piloted this experimental helicopter to set a world record with an average speed of 400.88 kilometers per hour over Somerset, England.

The largest helicopter in the world is the former Soviet Union's Mi? 12 ("Homing Pigeon" V? 12) military helicopter. The power system is four turboshaft engines with a power of 6500 horsepower. The rotor tip distance is 67.01 meters, the aircraft is 37 meters long and weighs 115.7 tons.

The helicopter with the largest lifting capacity in the world is the former Soviet Mi? 26 heavy-lift helicopter. On February 3, 1982, in Podkolov, Soviet Union, a military Mi?26 helicopter lifted cargo weighing 56,769.76 kilograms to a height of 1,999.49 meters. The main pilot of the aircraft is G.V. Alferov, and the co-pilot is L.A. Indif.

Helicopters flying around the world On September 1-30, 1982, H. Ross Perrott and Jay Coburn of Dallas, Texas, USA flew a helicopter named "Spirit of Texas" "" helicopter made the first helicopter flight around the world.

The world's first helicopter to fly around the world alone. On August 5, 1982, Dick Smith of Australia flew a Bell 206L named "Remote 3" from Fort Worth, Texas. The flight started from Bell Helicopter Base around the world and returned to the base on July 22, 1983, covering a total distance of 51,912.8 kilometers.