Flight endurance record

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The flight endurance record is the amount of time spent in the air. It can be a solo event, or multiple people can take turns piloting the aircraft in shifts. The limit initially was the amount of fuel that could be stored for the flight, but midair refueling extended that parameter.

Contents 1 Airplane 1.1 Non commercial 1.2 Commercial 2 Balloon 3 Space 4 See also 5 Reference

[edit] Airplane

[edit] Non commercial

• 1931 Walter Edwin Lees and Frederick Brossy: 84 hours and 33 minutes for a non-refueling airplane flight when they landed at Jacksonville Beach at 7:20 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time.

[edit] Commercial

• 2005 A Boeing 777 wide-body aircraft set an endurance record for a non-stop commercial flight November 10, 2005 traveling more than 22 hours eastward from Hong Kong to London. The aircraft, with 35 passengers and crew aboard, flew more than half way around the world, covering 11,664 nautical miles, or 21,601 kilometers. [1]

[edit] Balloon

• An uncrewed scientific balloon set an endurance record after circling the South Pole three times. On its flight, which ended 2 hours short of 42 days, NASA's Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass (CREAM) instrument captured high-energy cosmic rays that may have come from supernovae. The previous record was held by NASA's Trans-Iron Galactic Element Recorder balloon mission, which stayed afloat over Antarctica for almost 32 days in 2002. [2]

[edit] Space

• 2002 Expedition Four Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch, spent 196 days in space, the previous record was 188 days and broke the U.S. space flight endurance record. Expedition Four began in December 2001 and ended June 2002.

[edit] See also

• Airspeed record
• Flight distance record
• Flight altitude record
• Transcontinental airspeed record

[edit] Reference

• New York Times; May 29, 1931; Set Flight Record Without Refueling; Lees And Brossy, 84:33 Hours In Air, Recapture World Mark From France. Land On Florida Beach Take-Off In Diesel-Motor Plane Was Made Early Monday. Pair Slept Easily In Craft. Throngs Held Back For Landing. Set Flight Record Without Refueling Storm Threat Blows Over. Not Tired By 6,600-Mile Grind. Lees Once Drove Horse Car. Jacksonville, Florida, May 28, 1931 Walter Lees and Frederick Brossy, Detroit aviators, established a new world's record of 84 hours and 33 minutes for a non-refueling airplane flight when they landed at Jacksonville Beach at 7:20 o'clock, Eastern [Standard Time] ...