It looks like these guys beat the EH-101 guys to it.....and did it round trip to boot.....:
I wonder what support they took with them in their Robinson?
Coast-to-Coast Record
Rotor & Wing columnist Johan Nurmi and John Thomas have just completed a record setting flight from Los Angeles to Savanna, Ga. round-trip in a Robinson R22BII piston-powered helicopter. The flight took four days, 12 hr. and 20 sec., and recorded 53.9 flight hr. The two men set off from Los Angeles International Airport at 6:07 a.m. on Sept. 30, flew to Savannah, then returned to LAX. The route of flight both ways took Nurmi and Thomas through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
Nurmi said that they are now negotiating with Eurocopter "and other large helicopter manufacturers" for sponsorship of an around-the-world flight in an attempt to beat the current record. The record LAX-SAV-LAX flight "proves that we are ready to step into a turbine-engine helicopter" for an attempt at the around-the-world record, Nurmi said. He noted that the flight was a U.S. record and "might even be a world record."
