Pelletier d'Oisy World Attempt

Breguet 14 (Photo: Wikipedia)

Capitaine Georges Pelletier d'Oisy (1892–1953) was a French aviator and World War I flying ace.
He attempted a circumnavigation of the world in 1924. On 24 April 1924, Pelletier d'Oisy and Adjutant Lucien Besin departed Paris eastbound in a Breguet 19.A.2 in an attempt to fly around the world.

Their attempt ended when they crashed their airplane on a golf course in Shanghai, China. They had covered 10,580 miles (17,037 km) in 26 days.

Pelletier d'Oisy was in Hong Kong when a British Royal Air Force team of aviators making an eastbound attempt to circumnavigate the world arrived there on 30 June 1924, and he traded flying stories with Squadron Leader Archibald Stuart-MacLaren and Flying Officer William Plenderleith of the British team.
Shortly after that, he departed for Tokyo, Japan, in a Breguet 14 he had borrowed from the Republic of China government, arriving there on 17 July 1924.
The entire trip from Paris to Tokyo had taken 120 hours in the air over 84 days.

Breguet 14
Role: Bomber
Manufacturer: Breguet
Designer: Marcel Vuillierme
First flight: November 21, 1916
Introduction: 1917
Primary users: Aéronautique Militaire
US Army Air Service
Polish Air Force
Royal Thai Air Force
Produced: 1916-1928
Number built: ca 7,800

General characteristics
    Crew: Two
    Length: 8.87 m (29 ft 1 in)
    Wingspan: 14.36 m (47 ft 1 in)
    Height: 3.30 m (10 ft 10 in)
    Wing area: 47.50 m² (511 ft²)
    Empty weight: 1,010 kg (2,227 lb)
    Max. takeoff weight: 1,536 kg (3,386 lb)
    Powerplant: 1 × Renault 12Fe, 224 kW (300 hp)

Performance
    Maximum speed: 175 km/h (95 kn, 109 mph)
    Range: 900 km (486 nmi, 560 mi)
    Service ceiling: 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
    Rate of climb: 292 m/min (960 ft/min)
    Wing loading: 32 kg/m² (at max. takeoff weight) (6.6 lb/ft²)
    Power/mass: 145 W/kg (at max. takeoff weight) (0.09 hp/lb)

Source: Wikipedia