Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Long day in the cockpit

Congratulations to Evan on an outstanding 1500 kilometer flight!

He took off from Mifflin County Airport in central Pennsylvania at 9:58 am yesterday and landed back there over ten hours later.

In the meantime, he'd been to Tazewell, Virginia, 340 miles from home.  The flight was huge:


The winds that day were slightly south of the ideal direction, which allowed him to make the return trip at an average speed of just over a hundred miles per hour.  He spent just 6% of his time circling.

It was the longest glider flight in the world yesterday.

We hope he's spending today resting up and writing the story for us.

3 comments:

Andy Lumley said...

Now that is truly a cross country flight. Holy Smokes!

Rick said...

That feeling you get when it's 2pm and you're 340 miles from home...

Tim said...

I once sat in a barcalounger for 8 hours straight watching Seinfeld reruns. I thought that was an accomplishment. I guess you have me beat...10 hours, averaging 95 mph, in a plane without an engine...very cool!