"ADK" > wrote:

I am looking into shipping an Orion kit from Europe to Western Canada
in
June or July.


> Vaughn Simon suggested:
> >
> >
> > You might try posting that at rec.aviation.soaring. There always seems to
> > be gliders crossing the pond in one direction or another and sharing shipping
> > containers is not an uncommon subject there.
> >
> ...

remarked:
> you mean they don't fly gliders across the pond?
>

AFAIK, no one has ever flown a glider accross the Atlantic in either
direction though NASA has flown them most of the way West to
East accross the Pacific from time to time.

This raises the question: What is the longest glider flight on record?

Here I mean in time, that is duration aloft, rather than distance as
the NASA record will be pretty hard for any private owner to beat.

Anything longer than about 14 hours would have to be ridge gliding,
flown pretty far North, or both.

Is there any official body that recognizes such a record?

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FF

>> you mean they don't fly gliders across the pond?

Didn't a 747 glider land in the Azores once? :))

Rich S.

Done on Oahu, Hawaii, back in the very late 60's or early 70's. It
was over 70 hrs., close to 72 hrs. I believe one of the pilots was
Tom Winkler, and I think it was in a SGS 2-32. It was done ridge
flying the windward side of Oahu, the Kokolous range( I could of
spelled that wrong). I believe Duration records were removed shortly
after this, as some tried to stay up longer, and a crash happen with
loss of life. # 711.

"Rich S." > wrote in message
...
>>> you mean they don't fly gliders across the pond?
>
> Didn't a 747 glider land in the Azores once? :))

Yea, and it was one of those fancy self launching ones! <g>
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Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:
> "Rich S." > wrote in message
> ...
>>>> you mean they don't fly gliders across the pond?
>> Didn't a 747 glider land in the Azores once? :))
>
> Yea, and it was one of those fancy self launching ones! <g>

....but it was an Airbus A330 glider, not a soaring elephant.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

Martin Gregorie wrote:
>
> ...but it was an Airbus A330 glider, not a soaring elephant.
>

And the difference is....?

Richard Lamb wrote:


>> ...but it was an Airbus A330 glider, not a soaring elephant.
>>
>
> And the difference is....?

soaring with a liner is Canadian speciality....
remember a B767 in the '80s



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