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P-3 Orion record flights
Triggered by a recent question I am trying to find details about records
flights made by P-3 Orions. So far I found the following: 22 January 1971: World distance record for an aircraft in its class, flown by a USN P-3C: 7010 miles (11282 km). 4 November 1972: Class C / Group II world distance closed circuit record, flown by a USN RP-3D of VXN-8 (BuNo 158227): 10103,51 km in 16½ hours. The aircraft's weapons bay contained an additional fuel tank of 4543 litres which increased the total fuel capacity to 39369 litres. 1972: The record for the longest flight for a P-3 model is 21.5 hours, on a flight undertaken by the Royal New Zealand Air Force's No. 5 Squadron. I am interested in any additional details and information about the above mentioned record flights, like the exact date, names of crew, aircraft registration number, squadron, airfields for departure and destination, squadron, references to publications about these record flights, etc. I am looking forward to your replies! Regards, Marco P.J. Borst P-3 Orion Research Group - The Netherlands e-mail: P-3 website: http://home.planet.nl/~p3orion MSN Messenger: subscribe to the P-3 Orion e-mail group: "The reward of a job well done is to have done it." |
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P-3 Orion record flights
Marco P.J. Borst wrote: Triggered by a recent question I am trying to find details about records flights made by P-3 Orions. So far I found the following: 22 January 1971: World distance record for an aircraft in its class, flown by a USN P-3C: 7010 miles (11282 km). 4 November 1972: Class C / Group II world distance closed circuit record, flown by a USN RP-3D of VXN-8 (BuNo 158227): 10103,51 km in 16½ hours. The aircraft's weapons bay contained an additional fuel tank of 4543 litres which increased the total fuel capacity to 39369 litres. 1972: The record for the longest flight for a P-3 model is 21.5 hours, on a flight undertaken by the Royal New Zealand Air Force's No. 5 Squadron. I am interested in any additional details and information about the above mentioned record flights, like the exact date, names of crew, aircraft registration number, squadron, airfields for departure and destination, squadron, references to publications about these record flights, etc. I am looking forward to your replies! Have you tried writing to/emailing the squadrons you've identified above? Sounds like the type of thing that they could find fairly easily if they wanted to look for it. RNZAF contact details at www.airforce.mil.nz -- Errol Cavit | To: Adm Cunningham, CinC Med Fleet, 2 June 1941 For your magnificent enterprise and courage during the past twelve days, please accept for yourself, and convey to your officers and men, the heart-felt thanks of the Government and people of New Zealand. |
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P-3 Orion record flights
Puts me in mind of the Flight of the Truculent Turtle!
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