August 16, 20214 yr Sometime in the past year, I came across a picture which looked to have been from the 1920s, showing a guy on a small platform attached to the side of the engine compartment of a single engine airplane while the plane was flying. I laughed, thought "This can't be true, can it?" and made a mental note to do some research. So today I remembered it and checked it out: Holy Toledo!!! Check out the pictures in "The golden age of endurance flights" section, as well as the travails faced by the Key brothers on their flight: https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-building-the-plane-while-flying-it/ And here's a list of some of the notable endurance flights of 1929: https://generalaviationnews.com/2015/05/10/1929s-record-setting-endurance-flights/ Whoa, this must of been a time when men were MEN!! 😂🤣 Edited August 16, 20214 yr by Mike A
August 18, 20214 yr There was also an endurance flight done around 1950, where the pilots were "provisioned" (food + water) by flying low over a road, and picked up supplies from a car moving at high speed. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
August 20, 20214 yr It was very interesting reading, for sure! 5800X3D, RTX4070, 600 Watt, one or two 1440p 32" screens, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB PCle 3 NVMe, Warthog throttle, VKB NXT EVO stick, Honeycomb Alpha yoke, CH quad, 3 Logitech panels, 2 StreamDecks, Desktop Aviator Trim Panel. Crystal Light VR.
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