who was the first man to fly solo,nonstop, across the atlantic ocean?
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Charles Lindbergh in the plane "Spirit of St Louis"\n\n[modified below to give you a reference]\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh
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Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Ohio, USA, were the first to build a working heavier-than-air aircraft.  The first passenger was Orville Wright.  It all took place in Kittyhawk, 1903.\nThe first military aircraft was delivered to the Army Signal Corps at College Park Airport, Maryland.
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1).  "Columbus made a fourth voyage nominally in search of the Strait of Malacca to the Indian Ocean. Accompanied by his brother Bartolomeo and his 13-year-old son FERNANDO, he left Cádiz, Spain on May 11, 1502, with the ships Capitana, Gallega, Vizcaína and Santiago de Palos. "\n\n2).  "Ferdinand Columbus (Italian: Fernando Colombo, Spanish: Fernando Colón, Córdoba, Spain, 15 August? 1488 - Sevilla, Spain, 1539) was the second son of Christopher Columbus. His mother was Beatriz Enriquez de Harana, whom his father never married, but who was Columbus' constant companion in later life.\n\nFernando was born in Cordoba, and spent his early years there with his mother. After Columbus's triumphant return from his first voyage, Fernando was appointed a page to the Spanish crown prince Don Juan, but transferred to the service of Queen Isabella following the young prince's untimely death.\n\nBetween the ages of 13 and 15, Fernando was a crewmember on Columbus' fourth voyage to the New World. After his father's death, Fernando accompanied his older brother Diego to the New World in 1509 upon Diego's appointment as governor of Hispaniola. But Fernando preferred a more settled life, and returned to Spain a few months later."\n\nHope that's enough (  :
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I remember hearing that when Columbus set out to sail around the world (1492), people thought that the earth was flat and that he would fall off the edge. I have also heard that this is just a myth, people did not really believe that.
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Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955) was an American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary, most famously on an expedition intended to reach the Geographic North Pole in 1909. Due to his being black and his status as Peary's employee, he never reached the same fame as Peary in an America where racist views were still common. Today, the veracity of Peary's North Pole claim is widely disputed.
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34 hours, but above was close!!  Most of the way to Nova Scotia the fuel was so heavy he could only fly around 50 feet off the ocean!!
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African-American Matthew A. Henson accompanied polar explorer Robert E. Peary on a U.S. expedition to the North Pole on April 6, 1909. In 2000,\n\nsource: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0110_030113_henson.html\n\nFollow the footsteps of the great explorers, Robert E. Peary\nsource: http://www.bbc.co.uk/northpole2001/explorers.shtml
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He was an English privateer, navigator, naval pioneer and raider, politician and civil engineer of the Elizabethan era. He was the first captain to circumnavigate the Earth (Magellan died on his voyage, which was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano). He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died of dysentery while unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1596.\n\nHe is known as one of the greatest English sea captains of all time.\n\nThese links should help.
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From 21st Century Science & Technology Magazine:\n\n"Around the year 232 B.C., Captain Rata and Navigator Maui set out with a flotilla of ships from Egypt in an attempt to circumnavigate the Earth.1 On the night of August 6-7, 2001, between the hours of 11 PM and 3 AM, this writer, and fellow amateur astronomer Bert Cooper, proved in principle that Captain Rata and Navigator Maui could have known."\n\nMore at the article link below.
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa - Sep 25, 1513.\n\nVasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475, born in Jerez de los Caballeros or in Badajoz, Extremadura, Castile, Spain – January 21, 1519, in Acla, near Darién, Panama) was a Spanish conquistador who founded the colony of Darién in Panama, the oldest still-existing European settlement in the mainland of the Americas. He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from America (Sep 25, 1513).\n\nHearing rumours of a sea...\n...He heard of a great sea on the other side of the mountains and of a land of great wealth called Birú (later named Perú), turning out to be the Tahuantinsuyu (the Inca Empire) to the south of this sea...\n\nOn September 1, 1513, he sailed to San Blas (the narrowest part of the isthmus), and went south across the isthmus. As before he befriended the locals who were so inclined, and captured, tortured and looted those that remained hostile, thus gaining substantial treasure. Finally he reached a top from where he could see the Pacific Ocean on September 25, 1513. When the others had joined him a Te Deum was chanted, a cross erected, and the sea was christened Mar del Sur ("South Sea"). He pushed on to the edge of the ocean, in the Gulf of San Miguel and Balboa claimed the ocean and all adjacent lands for Spain.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_N%C3%BA%C3%B1ez_de_Balboa
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No, sorry.\nIf you want truly peace sail alone across the Atlantic.
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Galia Moss, the first Latin American woman to make a solo sailboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. She departed from Vigo, Spain last April 25 and is expected to arrive to Mexican soil in the next days to complete a 3,698 miles trip in little more than one month. \n\nFor this incredible adventure, Moss prepared herself with the “El + Mejor”, a First 31.7 cruise and regata sailboat designed by Finot/Conq, that weights 8,267 pounds and is 31.5 feet long. It can stock up to 160 liters of drinking water and 30 liters of fuel. The foodstuffs to survive the journey include cans and dehydrated meals.
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Henry Hudson (1565–1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator in the early seventeenth century. His date and place of birth are unknown, but September 12, 1570 is often given, and he is sometimes said to have been born in London. He is presumed to have died in 1611 in Hudson Bay, Canada, after he had been set adrift by mutinous crewmen.\n\nHudson's early life is an unknown, but he obviously must have spent many years at sea. He is said to have begun as a cabin boy at 16 and gradually worked his way up to captain.
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When I teach this subject my answer is always three fold.  FIRST-ancient peoples crossed over the land bridge between Asia and North America.  \n\nSECOND-Leif Erikson was the first known European to discover America\n\nTHRID- Columbus "rediscovered" America at a time when the knowledge caught hold and became widely known. \n\nMy personal belief is that many people discovered it independantly of others and thus were the true "first discoverer" at least in their own minds eye (and tribes or ships).
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Henry Hudson, Explorer \n\nBorn: 1570 (?) \nBirthplace: England \nDied: 1611 (?) \nBest Known As: The first European to sail up the Hudson River \nHenry Hudson was the English navigator who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1609 and became the first European to sail up what is now the Hudson River in New York. Little is known about Hudson's early life. In 1607 he was hired by the English Muscovy Company to lead the ship Hopewell on an expedition north of the European continent, in an effort to discover a northeastern sea passage to the spice islands of the South Pacific. He reached Greenland and Spitzbergen before his path was blocked by ice. On his second voyage, a year later, he made it as far as the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. Still convinced that there might be a separate passage to the northeast, the merchants of the Dutch East India Company hired Hudson in 1609 to lead an expedition on the ship Halve Maen (Half Moon in English). Hudson had other ideas, however, and sailed in the other direction, across the Atlantic to North America. He explored along the coast of Nova Scotia and down to what is now New York Harbor, sailing up the Hudson River as far north as Albany. Hudson's fourth voyage, aboard Discovery (1610-11), was financed by English merchants seeking the Northwest Passage across America to the Far East. He made it as far as Hudson's Bay before mutineers put him and eight others (including his son) adrift on a small boat in the bay in June of 1611. Although no record exists of their fate, the men were already sick and without provisions, and it is assumed Hudson and the others did not survive.
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Jordan. He could fly, literally. AKA "Air Jordan"
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He was the one who founded virgin airlines. \n\nSir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950, Shamley Green, Surrey), sometimes abbreviated as SRB for "Sir Richard Branson", is an English entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand, a banner that encompasses a variety of business organisations. It is estimated that Branson is worth over £3 billion (equivalent to nearly US$6 billion) according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2006.[1] On the 12th of October, 2006, he emphasised his stated plan is to invest $3 billion of Virgin's profits over 10 years to fight global warming.[2]\n\n\nRichard Branson has been involved in a number of world record-breaking attempts since 1985. In 1986 his boat, "Virgin Atlantic Challenger II" rekindled the spirit of the Blue Riband by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the fastest ever recorded time. This was followed a year later by the epic hot air balloon crossing of the same ocean in "Virgin Atlantic Flyer". This was not only the first hot-air balloon to cross the Atlantic, but was the largest ever flown at 2.3 million cubic feet capacity, reaching speeds in excess of 130 miles per hour (209 k/ph).\n\nIn January 1991 Richard crossed the Pacific Ocean from Japan to Arctic Canada, the furthest distance of 6,700 miles. Again, he broke all existing records, with speeds of up to 245 miles -per hour in a balloon of 2.6 million cubic feet.\n\nBetween 1995 and 1998 Richard Branson, Per Lindstrand and Steve Fossett, made a number of attempts to circumnavigate the globe by balloon. In late 1998 they made a record-breaking flight from Morocco to Hawaii but their dream of a global flight was shattered by bad weather, and then a Swiss team successfully circumnavigated the globe in early 1999.\n\n\n[edit] Life and career\nBranson was educated at Scaitcliffe School (now Bishopsgate School) [3] until the age of 13. He then attended Stowe School until he was 15. Branson suffered from dyslexia and had a generally curious spirit, resulting in him not being a good student. He was the captain of football and cricket teams, and by the age of 15 he had started two ventures that eventually failed: growing Christmas trees and raising budgerigars.\n\nAt 16, Branson decided to quit school and move to London, where he began his first successful entrepreneurial activity setting up Student magazine. When he was 17, he opened his first charity, the "Student Valley Centre". Branson started his first record business after he traveled across the English Channel and purchased crates of "cut-out" records from a record discounter. He sold the records out of the boot of his car to retail outlets in London. He continued selling cut-outs through a record mail order business in 1970. Trading under the name "Virgin" he sold records for considerably less than the so-called "High Street" outlets, especially the chain W. H. Smith. At the time many products were sold under restrictive marketing agreements which limited discounting, despite efforts in the 1950's and 1960's to limit so-called resale price maintenance.[4] In effect Branson began the series of changes that led to large-scale discounting of recorded music.\n\nBranson eventually started a record shop in Oxford Street in London and, shortly after, launched the record label Virgin Records with Nik Powell. Branson had gained enough profits from his record store to purchase a country estate, in which he installed a recording studio. He leased out studio time to fledgling artists, including multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield.\n\n \nVirgin logo designed by Roger Dean for the fledgling Virgin Records labelVirgin Records' first release was Oldfield's Tubular Bells, which was a best-seller and British LP chart topper. The album was released by Virgin after no other company dared to release the unconventional record [citation needed]. The company signed controversial bands such as the Sex Pis