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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight  Posted: 25 Sep 2018, 11:52 |
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DSM to MIA. 8 hrs =/- in a DC-3 full of blonde chicks, several times... Loved every minute of it! The return trip (same day usually) is a little tougher, but we were empty, so I was sleeping in the back for half of it.
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 25 Sep 2018, 12:01 |
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Flew a Geronimo 16.9 hours Monterey (MRY) to Hilo (ITO) on Friday the 13th of October 1978. My friend wanted his airplane over there so we just did it. All dead reckoning based on predicted winds.
We did get an ADF signal early on from Maui and it held pretty true but it was nice at 4am to pick up a VOR from Hilo. Not the brightest or best planned trip I ever did but better than some.
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 25 Sep 2018, 13:12 |
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Username Protected wrote: DSM to MIA. 8 hrs =/- in a DC-3 full of blonde chicks, several times... Loved every minute of it! The return trip (same day usually) is a little tougher, but we were empty, so I was sleeping in the back for half of it. No doubt....literally chicks.......as in poultry....
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 25 Sep 2018, 13:15 |
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Username Protected wrote: DSM to MIA. 8 hrs =/- in a DC-3 full of blonde chicks, several times... Loved every minute of it! The return trip (same day usually) is a little tougher, but we were empty, so I was sleeping in the back for half of it. No doubt....literally chicks.......as in poultry....
As in...
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 25 Sep 2018, 14:22 |
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Username Protected wrote: :bugeye:  Mr. Glasgow, I think you win. I agree, you win!
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 26 Sep 2018, 01:16 |
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About 2 decades ago I was along for someone picking up a new Archer and flying it to Portland, Maine. We had 11.6 in the air and about 16 hours for the day. We arrived to pick up the plane at 6AM and the FAA had not yet delivered the airworthiness certificate, which was 3+ hours of waiting. Otherwise, it would have been about 12 1/2 hours total for the day.
Riding in the back was a 14+ hour cold soak on a G-V but that is a rather pleasant flight.
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 11:19 |
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27.7 hrs...B-52 from Louisiana to Italy, and back...4x AR’s.
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 11:26 |
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Plenty of you guys have me beat, and I have certainly sat in the back of an airliner for significantly longer, but my longest Bonanza trip is 9.1 hrs. Palo Alto (KPAO) to Brookeridge (LL22, Chicago suburb), a distance of 1587.3 nm. The impressive thing is that my lovely wife was with me, and she made the call not to waste time with a stop in Nebraska or somewhere.
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 11:39 |
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Of course the military and record breakers will beat anything I've done but I did do 9+40 in a day flying in my Cessna 140 going from KVNY to Kent, WA. Crack of dawn at one end to watching the sun set at the other end on landing.
Also did 5+20 in one leg in my 64 Mooney but I'm a light weight compared to most of those here.
Have done 16+ non-stop ATL to JNB several times but that doesn't count in my book :-)
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 11:52 |
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I did 15.1 on the tach in a Cherokee 140 this spring, Atlanta to Santa Teresa, NM. Never again....
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 12:38 |
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Username Protected wrote: I did 15.1 on the tach in a Cherokee 140 this spring, Atlanta to Santa Teresa, NM. Never again.... Hi Steven- That Cherokee must have the long range tanks...  Regards, Bob
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 12:55 |
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Username Protected wrote: Plenty of you guys have me beat, and I have certainly sat in the back of an airliner for significantly longer, but my longest Bonanza trip is 9.1 hrs.
Bob Young Bob, Beats my longest bonanza flights. Cue up the Earthrounders to the white courtesy phone.  You have it in your genetics. Did I ever tell you what the folks at Sulfur Springs said about Old Bob when he was helping fly off McKenzie's hours? The politically correct statement is...... they were rather impressed at how long OB1 could stay in that cub and how many hours he could fly in a day. My longest in the aluminum tube was about 25/26? hours a few years ago when the A 380 had mechanical problems and we were held on the ramp for several hours.... then the long flight to Australia. A long time in an airplane.  Leldon
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Post subject: Re: Looongest Flight Posted: 28 Sep 2018, 13:11 |
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Username Protected wrote: ... My longest in the aluminum tube was about 25/26? hours a few years ago when the A 380 had mechanical problems and we were held on the ramp for several hours.... then the long flight to Australia. A long time in an airplane. Leldon Hi Leldon- I hope you were at least in business class! Bob
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