Originally Posted by
greg47
David "The return " . Longest range cruise is best achieved at highest allowed power at best ROC speed to optimum altitude. Noonan must have known they would never make it. They wern't aiming for the Binings.
It really depends on just when in time and remaing gas and distance they decided to turn around that point could have been 300 to 600 miles short of howland and assuming no wind or tail wind equal to their long term average headwind.-