{"id":109555,"date":"2017-12-09T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:20","slug":"first-non-stop-flight-around-world-1949-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/first-non-stop-flight-around-world-1949-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First non-stop flight around the world, 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-L4Tme76vgB8\/TW0Vo2TR3RI\/AAAAAAAAB2I\/tjvx5Vqz7Q8\/s1600\/Lucky%2BLady%2BII.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"153\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579139304897240338\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lucky2blady2bii.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109556\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 153px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>At 10:22 on the morning of 2nd March 1949, a B-50 Superfortress of the the United States Air Force called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lucky Lady II<\/span> flew past the control tower at Carswell Air Force Base at Forth Worth,  Texas, marking the completion of the first non-stop flight around the  world. The aircraft had lifted off from the same airbase a little over  eighty-four hours earlier. The fourteen strong crew, commanded by  Captain James Gallagher, worked in rotation to achieve their secret  objective.<\/p>\n<p>To complete the 23,452 miles (37,742 km) easterly circumnavigation, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lucky Lady II<\/span> had been adapted with an added fuel tank in the fuel bay. Even with the  extra fuel capacity, the aircraft required refuelling at various points  along the route. Four B-29 Superfortresses, adapted to serve as  tankers, refuelled the B-50 over Lajes Air Force Base in the Azores,  Dhahran Airfield in Saudi Arabia, Clark Air Force Base in the  Philippines, and Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>The record  breaking flight had a sinister significance. It demonstrated that the  United States could deliver a nuclear bomb anywhere in the world.  Thankfully, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lucky Lady II<\/span> was  never called upon to fulfil this function, and it&#8217;s fuselage is now on  display at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, California.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10:22 on the morning of 2nd March 1949, a B-50 Superfortress of the the United States Air Force called Lucky Lady II flew past the control tower at Carswell Air Force Base at Forth Worth, Texas, marking the completion of the first non-stop flight around the world. The aircraft had lifted off from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}