Standard Class / National Distance to Goal Record

[ryanglover1969[_2_]]

http://ssa.org/members/badgesandrecords/RecordTable.asp

448.24mi
Fritz Seger
8/29/1987

Not to diminish Fritz Seger's fantastic flight but, I would have
thought this record would have been surpassed on some of the ridges in
the east by now. Is going for this record unappealing to a lot of
pilots?

[jim]

On Feb 17, 8:29*am, ryanglover1969 > wrote:
> http://ssa.org/members/badgesandrecords/RecordTable.asp
>
> *448.24mi
> Fritz Seger
> 8/29/1987
>
> Not to diminish Fritz Seger's fantastic flight but, I would have
> thought this record would have been surpassed on some of the ridges in
> the east by now. Is going for this record unappealing to a lot of
> pilots?

Look at Ken Arterburn's flight in an ASW-15 distance to a goal 532
mi. Submitted as 15 m record inTexas.

[ryanglover1969[_2_]]

On Feb 17, 6:46*am, jim > wrote:
> On Feb 17, 8:29*am, ryanglover1969 > wrote:
>
> >http://ssa.org/members/badgesandrecords/RecordTable.asp
>
> > *448.24mi
> > Fritz Seger
> > 8/29/1987
>
> > Not to diminish Fritz Seger's fantastic flight but, I would have
> > thought this record would have been surpassed on some of the ridges in
> > the east by now. Is going for this record unappealing to a lot of
> > pilots?
>
> Look at Ken Arterburn's flight in an ASW-15 distance to a goal 532
> mi. *Submitted as 15 m record inTexas.

Pretty cool. Look at the flight below it. 503.39mi
Carson Gilmer
7/7/1973
Why is this not the national record for distance to a declared goal?
Carson Gilmer
7/7/1973