If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Aircraft shipping from Europe
"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? -- FF |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Aircraft shipping from Europe
you mean they don't fly gliders across the pond?
Didn't a 747 glider land in the Azores once? ) Rich S. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Aircraft shipping from Europe
"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 -- Jim in NC |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Aircraft shipping from Europe
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. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Aircraft shipping from Europe
Martin Gregorie wrote: ...but it was an Airbus A330 glider, not a soaring elephant. And the difference is....? |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Aircraft shipping from Europe
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 By -- Pub: http://www.slowfood.fr/france Philippe Vessaire Ò¿Ó¬ |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Aircraft shipping from Europe
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. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Air Force One Had to Intercept Some Inadvertent Flyers / How? | Rick Umali | Piloting | 29 | February 15th 06 04:40 AM |
I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!! | Eliot Coweye | Home Built | 237 | February 13th 06 03:55 AM |
Most reliable homebuilt helicopter? | tom pettit | Home Built | 35 | September 29th 05 02:24 PM |
NTSB: USAF included? | Larry Dighera | Piloting | 10 | September 11th 05 10:33 AM |
Boeing Boondoggle | Larry Dighera | Military Aviation | 77 | September 15th 04 02:39 AM |