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Awesome story but I’m really disappointed in the lack of photos. Does anyone have any good links? Some fun facts: They refueled twice a day They bathed by usi
by codezero 8y ago
Awesome story but I’m really disappointed in the lack of photos. Does anyone have any good links?
Some fun facts:
They refueled twice a day
They bathed by using a bottle of water
They didn’t sleep well and once overslept and ran on autopilot
They refueled from a truck that drove under them. They hoisted a hose up. Their generator died half way through and they had to use a hand pump the rest of the time.
It was really boring up there.
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- wtvanhest 8y agoThat is a great article. It is too bad they dont have more photos.
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- jokoon 8y agoThe cessna take off speed is 100Km/h, does that mean that refueling truck had to go around that same speed, or maybe a little slower since the airplane did not have to rise? Or did they have a modified wing?
- cjbprime 8y agoAm not a pilot, but why would they need takeoff speed, rather than to just stay above the minimum speed before stalling? That $V_s0$ speed is more like 65Km/h.
- JshWright 8y agoAlso important to note that's airspeed, not ground speed. If they're driving/flying into a headwind, the ground speed (the speed the truck cares about) is even lower.
- dbcurtis 8y agoI think stall spoed with full flaps is around 35 mph, so 50kph-ish
- logosmonkey 8y agoYeah right around there for the 172. You usually do slow flight work right around 40kts
- qume 8y agoI build camera gear for 172s and fly (as passenger, not pilot) probably 20-30 days per year, sometimes much more, and I get nervous at <60kts at low altitude. 40kts IAS is I guess around the full flaps stall speed but you sure don't want to be doing that intentionally. At least not with me in the plane please.
- cyberferret 8y agoI scoured the article to find out how they refuelled - the details were buried towards the end. Wow, what a way to transfer supplies and refuel 'on the wing' with a truck speeding along on the ground. A feat in itself. To to do this around 130 times without a major incident is remarkable. EDIT: I'm also disappointed in lack of photos of the aviators and the aircraft. I am hoping the plane is still preserved somewhere and there are recent photos of it.
- casual_slacker 8y agoHere's another article with a picture of the refueling: https://disciplesofflight.com/flight-endurance/ https://disciplesofflight.com/flight-endurance/