1. He made a solo flight over the Philippines in 1937.

2. French aviator Elise Deroche became the first woman to make a solo flight.

3. As the horizon spins dizzily, 000 amateur pilots roll a jet on their first solo flight.

4. July 14–22 – Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega, makes the first solo flight around the world.

5. September 28 – Lieutenant Dick Bently of the South African Air Force arrives in South Africa, completing the first solo flight there from England.

6. 1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

7. The Egyptian Air Force is formed May 9 – Captain Albert Hegenberger makes the first completely blind solo flight entirely on instruments, in a Consolidated NY-2.

8. Biplane is the story of that solo flight into the American skies -- a flight that became a personal quest to discover everything that lies beyond the ordinary

9. "Biplane" is the story of that solo flight into the American skies—a flight that became a personal quest to discove To discover that time is not a straight line aimed toward infinity, Richard Bach undertook a magnificent journey.