Airplane Pics

[flogger]

This is a picture of a 1958 endurance flight in Vegas, it was sponsored by a casino.

These guys (Robert Timm & John Cook) flew 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes NON-STOP in a Cessna 172. They flew around in a circuit being resupplied and refueled as shown. Over 150,000 miles flown, about 6 times around the earth! They said the engine was about to rattle off the plane when they finally landed.

[flogger]

This is a picture of a 1958 endurance flight in Vegas, it was sponsored by a casino.

These guys (Robert Timm & John Cook) flew 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes NON-STOP in a Cessna 172. They flew around in a circuit being resupplied and refueled as shown. Over 150,000 miles flown, about 6 times around the earth! They said the engine was about to rattle off the plane when they finally landed.

Here is a follow-up on the flight. It still holds the record!!
Engine oil was added by means of a tube from the cabin that was fitted to pass through the firewall. Only the pilot's seat was installed. The remaining space was used for a pad on which the relief pilot slept. The right cabin door was replaced with an easy-opening, accordion-type door to allow supplies and fuel to be hoisted aboard. Early in the flight, the engine-driven electric generator failed. A Champion wind-driven generator (turned by a small propeller) was hoisted aboard, taped to the wing support strut, and plugged into the cigarette lighter socket; it served as the aircraft's source of electricity for the rest of the flight. The pilots decided to end the marathon flight because with 1,558 hours of continuously running the engine during the record-setting flight, plus several hundred hours already on the engine beforehand (considerably in excess of its normal overhaul interval), the engine's power output had deteriorated to the point where they were barely able to climb away after refueling. The aircraft is on display in the passenger terminal at McCarran International Airport. Photos and details of the record flight can be seen in a small museum on the upper level of the baggage claim area.^[11] After the flight, Cook said: “Next time I feel in the mood to fly endurance, I'm going to lock myself in our garbage can with the vacuum cleaner running. That is, until my psychiatrist opens up for business in the morning.”^[12]

[sniper7]

Pretty cool accomplishment! Wonder what the sleeping arrangements were like?

[Chad4000]

Veery cool pics

[wyome]

Wow...

[Hoser]

Saw this on a foreign C-130 recently.

[flogger]

NICE!! What nationality? Cool Herc artwork is always a pleasure.

[Hoser]

NICE!! What nationality? Cool Herc artwork is always a pleasure.

Polish. Used to be ours. I last flew it in the early to mid 90s when it was flying out of Frankfurt.

[Hoser]

Saw this interesting camo on the inside of a MiG-29 recently.

[275RLTW]

Saw this interesting camo on the inside of a MiG-29 recently.

"and what were you doing with the Mig?"

"communicating. You know; the bird."