Roost Air Lounge => Aviation related topics => Topic started by: Jean Loup on April 12, 2011, 04:24:06 PM
Title: 65-Day Flight in an Airplane
Post by: Jean Loup on April 12, 2011, 04:24:06 PM
April 7, 2011 — Imagine flying in your airplane once a day for 65 straight days. Now visualize one continuous flight, remaining aloft for 65 days - 1,558 consecutive hours. Refueling will be done air-to-air, oil changes on the fly, while two occupants eat, sleep - and perform other necessary functions – in a small plane for more than two months. That’s what Matt Pipkin and his father Chet, are hoping to do sometime in the summer of 2012.
If successful the father-and-son pilots from Idaho would break the longstanding Guinness world flight endurance record of 64 days, 22 hours, 19 minutes, and 5 minutes, set by Robert Timm and John Cook, who remained aloft from December 4, 1958, to February 7, 1959, in a Cessna 172. They were doing a promotional stunt for the Las Vegas Hacienda Hotel and Casino and when they finally landed, they had flown a distance equal to six times around the world.
(http://eaa.org/news/2011/images/desert-refuel.jpg) Ground to air refueling in 1958/59 (that pick-up is also a classic!)
That flight gained worldwide attention and drew a crowd of spectators and media. Today the airplane hangs from the ceiling at Las Vegas McCarran Airport. (continues at http://eaa.org/news/2011/2011-04-07_65days.asp (http://eaa.org/news/2011/2011-04-07_65days.asp)
Title: Re: 65-Day Flight in an Airplane
Post by: YawningMan on April 15, 2011, 02:16:51 AM
That's a crazy record to go for! As if 65 days in a row, cooped up in a 172 wasn't bad enough; How will the FAA feel about them missing 15.6 100 hour inspections?
Still, I'm praying they succeed without incident. Better a boring day than an exciting one when it comes to airplane safety.
Title: Re: 65-Day Flight in an Airplane
Post by: G-man on April 15, 2011, 03:59:29 AM
That's a crazy record to go for! As if 65 days in a row, cooped up in a 172 wasn't bad enough; How will the FAA feel about them missing 15.6 100 hour inspections?
Still, I'm praying they succeed without incident. Better a boring day than an exciting one when it comes to airplane safety.
Errr.....100hr inspections are only required if operating commercially or flight instruction for hire. Otherwise NOT required.
Title: Re: 65-Day Flight in an Airplane
Post by: Mike on April 29, 2011, 03:58:47 AM
Holy Crap!! ::eek:: ::unbelieveable::
I must have walked past that airplane a hundred times by now, all the while thinking it was some advertisement for a Mexican Restaurant (Hacienda) ::rofl::
Never knew there was all that history behind it! I'll take a second look next Monday (plus puzzle everybody with my history knowledge)
Thanks Yan! ::wave::
Title: Re: 65-Day Flight in an Airplane
Post by: Jean Loup on May 05, 2011, 02:36:40 AM
I must have walked past that airplane a hundred times by now, all the while thinking it was some advertisement for a Mexican Restaurant (Hacienda) ::rofl::
Never knew there was all that history behind it! I'll take a second look next Monday (plus puzzle everybody with my history knowledge)
Thanks Yan! ::wave::
Even though I cook & live at my Hacienda Armonía, it is NOT a Mexican Restaurant (I wish···) But we do have guest room for visitors.
