Callum had originally planned to make his first solo flight on his birthday, but weather conditions delayed take-off.

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In 1932, Scottish aviator Jim Mollison made the first westbound transatlantic solo flight, from Portmarnock, Ireland, to Pennfield, New Brunswick.

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The completion of his thirtythree-and-a-half-hour nonstop solo flight from Long Island to Paris in the tiny monoplane the Spirit of St.

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She attempted her first solo flight at Darley Moor Airfield on 28 October, but the hang glider started swinging from side to side so she made a safe landing.

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It was not the stiff white dragonfly GlobalFlyer, a delicate construction of carbon fibre with all its interstices filled with fuel, in which in 2005 he had made the first non-stop solo flight round the world.

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