How far has your longest flight been?
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Little aeroplanes :
5 1/2 hours one December day fetching a Champ up from Devon to Yorkshire. Non radio, 2 fuel stops, rather cool at the end of it. Following the M5, wagons were passing us the groundspeed was so slow.
Big aeroplanes:
14:30 hrs non stop, direct MAN - SOC (Indonesia) in an A330 with about 15 people and 4 tonnes of spares on board. Landed with enough gas to probably reach Darwin !
11:20 hrs MAN - LAS A330 with a full load............... No, there wasn't much left when we got there !
5 1/2 hours one December day fetching a Champ up from Devon to Yorkshire. Non radio, 2 fuel stops, rather cool at the end of it. Following the M5, wagons were passing us the groundspeed was so slow.
Big aeroplanes:
14:30 hrs non stop, direct MAN - SOC (Indonesia) in an A330 with about 15 people and 4 tonnes of spares on board. Landed with enough gas to probably reach Darwin !
11:20 hrs MAN - LAS A330 with a full load............... No, there wasn't much left when we got there !
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In my own glider (best l/d of 35:1),
Longest time - 5h54m (270km covered)
Longest distance - 520km (in just over 5 hours)
Fastest - 113kph (508km in 4h30m - 4h40m total flying time)
Fastest in any glider - 160kph over 330km (best l/d of 58:1)
Almost never actually flying at the best l/d speed though - it's too fast for climbing and too slow to cover good distance (providing good climbs are available)
Longest time - 5h54m (270km covered)
Longest distance - 520km (in just over 5 hours)
Fastest - 113kph (508km in 4h30m - 4h40m total flying time)
Fastest in any glider - 160kph over 330km (best l/d of 58:1)
Almost never actually flying at the best l/d speed though - it's too fast for climbing and too slow to cover good distance (providing good climbs are available)
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Chuck,
Sorry so late getting back. Lost track of which thread I'd been contributing to!
Having read just a brief bit from the link previously posted, you're being modest about your writing talent. And, hell, even if you can't spell your own name, your stories really need to be recorded for posterity. Have you thought of dictating them to someone you trust with them? Or maybe just sit and talk to someone who can than turn your conversation into ink on paper? Either way, you ought to be recorded somehow.
And, yeah, the Pitts is a pretty magic machine, isn't it? Been my desire to own one since I was about 14 and first heard about them. Sure they won't do what a Sukhoi or a Cap will do, but they'll do it with more grace, style and elegance than any of those newcomers can ever muster! Glad to hear you're back into it. Would love to hear how you get on as you go!
Pitts2112
Sorry so late getting back. Lost track of which thread I'd been contributing to!
Having read just a brief bit from the link previously posted, you're being modest about your writing talent. And, hell, even if you can't spell your own name, your stories really need to be recorded for posterity. Have you thought of dictating them to someone you trust with them? Or maybe just sit and talk to someone who can than turn your conversation into ink on paper? Either way, you ought to be recorded somehow.
And, yeah, the Pitts is a pretty magic machine, isn't it? Been my desire to own one since I was about 14 and first heard about them. Sure they won't do what a Sukhoi or a Cap will do, but they'll do it with more grace, style and elegance than any of those newcomers can ever muster! Glad to hear you're back into it. Would love to hear how you get on as you go!
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11.2 Hours, Cessna 206 Luxor to Djibouti.
One leg of a ferry flight from Israel to South Africa.
Aircraft was fitted with a 140 US Gal ferry tank. Had a total of 16 hours endurance. We were four aircraft in formation; had so much fun, did the trip again a few months later.
Make sure you have everything you need on the seat in front with you (including the bog-roll
One leg of a ferry flight from Israel to South Africa.
Aircraft was fitted with a 140 US Gal ferry tank. Had a total of 16 hours endurance. We were four aircraft in formation; had so much fun, did the trip again a few months later.
Make sure you have everything you need on the seat in front with you (including the bog-roll
Did an overnighter from Sydney, NSW to Tenant Creek, Northern Territory in an Aerostar once. Just shy of 9 hours although there were a couple of fuel stops involved so might not count for longest flight.
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As co pilot, 13.5 hours airborne, Rotterdam to Rhodos Greece in a Twin Otter (with long range tanks).
As pilot, in my amphibian last summer along the St Lawrence Rive, with a 40 MPH headwind - 6.9 hours.
In one day, 15.1 hours, Just north of Toronto, to Key West, Florida in my 150.
As pilot, in my amphibian last summer along the St Lawrence Rive, with a 40 MPH headwind - 6.9 hours.
In one day, 15.1 hours, Just north of Toronto, to Key West, Florida in my 150.
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7h10, approx 660 nauticals, C172 long range and turtle, Big John was my best companion, even had one of these blue gaz burner to cook, would not advise to do that and won't do it again!
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Chuck as a quality control manager do you get to test them first before they are let loose to the general public
My longest flight 32 hrs over 4 days Florids USA to Durban S Africa via Iceland and South in a Little Cessna
Carrying only 5800 ibs of fuel 
Pace
My longest flight 32 hrs over 4 days Florids USA to Durban S Africa via Iceland and South in a Little Cessna
Carrying only 5800 ibs of fuel Pace
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In 6 days 75hr Florida to Middle East, the longest sector was 15hr 45min non stop in a PA28, but the crazy thing was did it 4 times in row over an 8 week period.
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Longest flights (solo - gliding):
4hr35min
4hr47min
5hr2min minus 8min for aerotow... I've given up for now!
Longest flights (dual - gliding):
Just shy of 7hrs - Jondaryan to somewhere around Wallumbilla and back...
The above are from memory - when I get a chance will check logbook and correct as needed.
4hr35min
4hr47min
5hr2min minus 8min for aerotow... I've given up for now!
Longest flights (dual - gliding):
Just shy of 7hrs - Jondaryan to somewhere around Wallumbilla and back...
The above are from memory - when I get a chance will check logbook and correct as needed.
5 hours 45 mins in a glider for my duration flight for the silver badge, spent most of it around Lincoln as was based at Scampton in Humber Gliding Club.
PPL Cessna 172 longest flight 2 hours 20 mins, Humberside to Le Touquet. Same duration on return trip same day!
PPL Cessna 172 longest flight 2 hours 20 mins, Humberside to Le Touquet. Same duration on return trip same day!
I think I hold both records 
But perhaps one that will never be beaten is the shortest flight from one international RAF airfield to another..... 12 seconds... But where was it from & to???
ps I logged 5 minutes!!
But perhaps one that will never be beaten is the shortest flight from one international RAF airfield to another..... 12 seconds... But where was it from & to???
ps I logged 5 minutes!!
C-152 Goose Bay - Narsarsuaq 11.3 hours. No autopilot of course, 2.7 hrs actual over the icecap. Part of a ferry from Arizona - Israel (86.8 hrs total)
Also 10.0 hrs Reykjavik-East Midlands, same ferry.
Sharpend Guess: Luqa-Safi?
Also 10.0 hrs Reykjavik-East Midlands, same ferry.
Sharpend Guess: Luqa-Safi?
Originally Posted by Chuck Ellsworth, in 2004
I have decided to cancel my decision to retire soon because I am going to take a crack at the unlimited aerobatic flying contests just for the hell of it.
So my new retirement date will be in 2015, I will be eighty then and want to change careers, by then I will have had enough of flying and plan on getting a job as quality control manager in a whore house.
So my new retirement date will be in 2015, I will be eighty then and want to change careers, by then I will have had enough of flying and plan on getting a job as quality control manager in a whore house.
Fox3, Close but no cigar!
It was Halfar to Luqa. It is now just one runway, but in 1967 I lifted off, got to 20 feet, then touched down as I had to cross a road and a stone wall.
It was Halfar to Luqa. It is now just one runway, but in 1967 I lifted off, got to 20 feet, then touched down as I had to cross a road and a stone wall.