Endurance record for ra aircraft?

[recflyer]

http://www.rapp.org/archives/2013/11/the-ultimate-endurance-record/

 

This article got me thinking, which ra aircraft has the endurance record in its category?

 

 

[eightyknots]

http://www.rapp.org/archives/2013/11/the-ultimate-endurance-record/This article got me thinking, which ra aircraft has the endurance record in its category?

This is an absolutely amazing and almost inconceivable record! I like this quote from the article:

 

Can you imagine the logbook entry for this flight? “1500 hours, 128 mid-air refuelings, one landing.” The ground track mileage was sufficient to have flown around the earth seven times. Any way you slice it, this was an impressive feat by a couple of ordinary people, one a slot machine technician and the other an aviation mechanic.

 

 

[dazza 38]

I wonder if the engine had a seperate oil tank to replenish the engine sump.

 

 

[pmccarthy]

I wonder how they handled the toilet situation, the belly tank rules out a hole in the floor.

 

 

[DonRamsay]

The South Africans who flew a Rotax engined Sling around the world did Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro in one hop! Carried a little extra fuel to cover the 23 hour non-stop flight. Goodness knows how they got the approval to do it. Or perhaps they just asked for forgiveness. Could you imagine the look on the face of the CASA-type person ramp checking them on arrival at Rio?