Capitaine Georges Pelletier d'Oisy (1892–1953) was a French aviator and World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 ace. He attempted a circumnavigation of the world in 1924.

Pelletier d'Oisy began his aviation career as a World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 flying ace

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 credited with five aerial victories.

On 24 April 1924, Pelletier d'Oisy and Adjutant Lucien Besin departed Paris

Paris

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 eastbound in a Breguet 19.A.2

Breguet 19

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 in an attempt to fly around the world. Their attempt ended when they crashed their airplane on a golf course

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 in Shanghai

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, China

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. They had covered 10,580 miles (17,037 km) in 26 days.

Pelletier d'Oisy was in Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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 when a British Royal Air Force

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 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

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 Archibald Stuart-MacLaren and Flying Officer

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 William Plenderleith of the British team. Shortly after that, he departed for Tokyo

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, Japan

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, in a Breguet 14

Breguet 14

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 he had borrowed from the Republic of China

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government, arriving there on 17 July 1924. The entire trip from Paris to Tokyo had taken 120 hours in the air over 84 days.