Most Number of Hours Ever?
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Most Number of Hours Ever?
Hi there, just wondering what the most number of flying hours ever accumulated by one person is? Is there a guiness book of records entry for such a thing?
The most Ive ever met is someone with 12000 hrs, seems a lot compared to what I have however there must surely be some 90 year old veterans somewhere in the world with perhaps 50000 hrs? Anyone know of such a character?
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The most Ive ever met is someone with 12000 hrs, seems a lot compared to what I have however there must surely be some 90 year old veterans somewhere in the world with perhaps 50000 hrs? Anyone know of such a character?
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I have about 25,000 hours, but I'm only in the "little league", I knew and flew with some old-timers who went well beyond the 30,000 hour mark.
One old and dear departed friend, Captain Larry Blackman of TAA, had something like my total time on one aircraft only, the DC3. Of course, he flew other aircraft also.
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One old and dear departed friend, Captain Larry Blackman of TAA, had something like my total time on one aircraft only, the DC3. Of course, he flew other aircraft also.
Regards,
Old Smokey
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I recall being told that Captain Jason H had around 45,000 hours ... although the unkind would opine that he shouldn't have counted those accrued when he was asleep .... one Barry B recounted a tale when, as Jason's FO on a DC3 motoring over the Strait on one occasion, one motor decided to quit ... Jason evidently woke up ... observed that Barry had done the relevant things satisfactorily ... "carry on, lad" .. and retired once more to Noddy land ...
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64,000 hours and counting.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9812...lot/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/science/9812...lot/index.html
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guess that just about settles it then! That story was from 1998, 8 years ago, so he could be up to maybe 80,000 hrs by now! fook me. Mind you hes also going to be 91 if he's still alive, so maybe he's finally hung up his headset. Anyone got any latest news on this guy, is he still alive/ flying around?
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The chap who taught me to fly had just over 20,000hrs when he retired.
OK, that doesn't sound much against some of the numbers mentioned on this thread, but every one of his were on light aircraft !
OK, that doesn't sound much against some of the numbers mentioned on this thread, but every one of his were on light aircraft !
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Originally Posted by http://www.aopa.org/asf/publications/inst_reports2.cfm?article=4484
Evelyn Bryan Johnson is a most amazing person (see "Fifty Years in the Right Seat," September 1999 AOPA Flight Training). She is the highest-time pilot alive in the world today, with more than 57,000 carefully logged hours. (The only pilot who ever had more flying time than Evelyn was my old friend and one-time fellow employee, the late Ed Long, himself a CFI enshrined in the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame.) Evelyn has more flying time than any other woman who ever lived, and is today, at age 92, the oldest active flight instructor in the world.
Big shocker is that it's currently a female!
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Just coming up to 700.
Putting that into relation with figures of multiple thousands makes me speechless. At the rate I've built this, I would have to fly for 385 years to achieve 45000 hours...
From this, I come to the conclusion that "it was much better in the old days".
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Putting that into relation with figures of multiple thousands makes me speechless. At the rate I've built this, I would have to fly for 385 years to achieve 45000 hours...
From this, I come to the conclusion that "it was much better in the old days".
/LnS
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Jesus H! 57000hrs?! I know someone with 22000 hrs & 22 engine failures. Still alive. Can't be a bad pilot. Makes it all look sooooo easy. Everything is as smooth as a baby's bum. 
My entry would be Max Conrad, long flown west, but he had around 51,000 hours-all in light aircraft. In the Sixties, he was annually setting all kinds of long-distance records in various Piper planes.
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I have about 25,000 hours, but I'm only in the "little league", I knew and flew with some old-timers who went well beyond the 30,000 hour mark.
One old and dear departed friend, Captain Larry Blackman of TAA, had something like my total time on one aircraft only, the DC3. Of course, he flew other aircraft also.
Regards,
Old Smokey
One old and dear departed friend, Captain Larry Blackman of TAA, had something like my total time on one aircraft only, the DC3. Of course, he flew other aircraft also.
Regards,
Old Smokey
