Who was the first person to bunny hop in a plane around the world?

Answer 1

"Bunny hop"? Oh you mean the first to fly around the world with stops to refuel.

In 1924 four Douglas World Cruisers and eight American crewmen set out from Seattle, Washington, to attempt the first around-the-world airplane flight. One hundred seventy-five days later three of the aircraft and crews became the first to circumnavigate earth. So there were 6 men who completed the trip.

The Douglas World Cruiser biplane was a variant of the Navy's DT-2 torpedo bomber that could be operated either with wheels or floats.

This was kinda amazing that this was accomplished by Americans because the Italians and other Europeans had more better airplanes and experienced pilots in the early 1920s.

Solo flight

Nine years later, in 1933, it took another American, Wiley Post, only 7 days to be the first to fly solo around the world. Between July 15 and 22, Post covered 25 110 km (15,596 miles) in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in one of the most remarkable displays of flying endurance of the century. Post's single engine Lockheed Vega, theWinnie Mae was equipped with a Sperry automatic pilot, a radio direction finder, and other new devices.

Solo Helicopter Flight

In 1983 Dick Smith became the first helicopter pilot to fly soloaround the world. However Smith flew the trip in several "legs" with long breaks between each one to allow rest and maintenance on the Bell 206.