| Show Circling The Globe I 1 No Xo one has ever really circled j the globe because to literally do that would mean going around the world at its circumference whether whether whether ther b by following the equator or otherwise But oln going around the world is generally understood to mean an any passa passage e around the earth between the two points ow the time required for this feat has been reduced is strikingly ly illustrated by the fact that Ma Magel- Magel Magellen's lens Magel-len's l- l lens len's ship Victory the first to cir cir- circumnavigate cir circumnavigate ate the globe lobe in the tho ac- ac accepted accepted ac accepted sense took three years lacking 12 days dars for its voyage Yoya e 1619 1519 to 1522 I 22 Drake made it in 1052 days something over oyer a half century later Inter Cavendish in 1858 sailed from Pl Plymouth England and reo re- returned re returned I turned in days Then challenged by Jules Vernes Verne's book Around the World in 80 days das Nellie Ely a n newspaper wo- wo woman woman wo woman man went around the world by boat and train in 72 days in 1889 The next year ear Geor George e Francis Train did the stunt in 67 days das Other records ranging ran ing around 40 10 days were made in the succeeding years ears before the advent of the air airplane air air- airplane l plane In 1827 Linton and Wells em- em em employing train boat and airplane completed the circuit in 28 8 day days In 19 1928 5 Mears Mean and Collyer reduced tho time to 24 days the diri dirigible ible Gad Zeppelin in 1929 cut the rec- rec record record rec record ord to 21 days Then came camo the real record record- record breakers breakers Wiley WIl y Post and Harold Catty Gatty in 1931 made the trip HaroldI by I airplane in 8 days s 15 hours houra and 51 i minutes A few days a ago o the speediest world orld flight ht of all time I l was made by Wiley Post one eyed one aviator flying alone in 7 day days day 18 hours and 49 minutes And that's that something for other globe globo trotters trotter tJ shoot at nt I I I II |
