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| Date | Distance (miles) | Time (hours) | Speed (mph) | Distance Improvement | Speed Improvement | |
| Wright flyer, first flight | 12/17/1903 | 0.0227 | 0.0033 | 6.82 | ||
| Wright flyer, later that day | 12/17/1903 | 0.1614 | 0.0164 | 9.85 | 7.10 | 1.44 |
| Lindbergh, transatlantic | 5/19/1927 | 3,600 | 33.5000 | 107.46 | 158,400.00 | 15.76 |
| LAX-Taipei (round trip) | 9/1/2002 | 13,552 | 25.8333 | 524.59 | 596,288.00 | 76.94 |
| Apollo 11 moon (round trip) | 7/16/1969 | 440,000 | 185.8833 | 2,367.08 | 19,360,000.00 | 347.17 |
| Lindbergh: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lindbergh/sfeature/spirit.html | ||||||
| Wright brothers: http://www.nasm.si.edu/galleries/gal100/wright1903.html | ||||||
| Apollo 11: http://www.nasm.si.edu/apollo/AS11/a11.htm | ||||||
| Great circle distance LA-Taipei: http://www.indo.com/distance/ | ||||||
| Distance to moon: at closest point in orbit | ||||||