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Longest Flight on a Home Built Airplane
Pilot Bill Harrelson just landed after a 22:15 hour flight covering 4,340nm distance from Peru, IN to Honolulu, HI. This has to be a record..! (flightaware.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Congratulations to Bill, whether it is a record, or not.
What an amazing feat! Can't believe the local newscasts didn't pick up on this. Welcome to Jacksonville, Bill!
I guess the sequester is affecting all the transponders. Flight tracking seems to be about 3 hours behind. My plotter shows him over Oklahoma within Albuquerque Cntr.
what type of aeroplane was that and how much fuel was carrying. Was it equipted with autopilot? Was flying with a single pilot?
Lancair IV with about 400 gallons. It has an autopilot and with 400 gallons, there is not room for any other people
Really, why wouldn't you land in CA and hit the head, get some sleep and a decent meal.
It would only make sense.
It would only make sense.
What are the "rules" for the record, if that's what he's after. He may not have been able to stop and still challenge the record he was after. As for flying the route in the other direction, airplane drivers have been making that trip for many years, before nav. aids and loran and long before GPS and SatNav. It wasn't that long ago that the hottest lick was on board radio direction equipment combined with dead reckoning and celestial sightings. There's certainly no shortage of time to do the arithmetic.