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182 - The Hacienda Hotel Airplane Endurance Record

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:00.0

I read something interesting that I want to talk to you about because I would like to imagine if it were us doing this.

0:15.4

Oh fun.

0:16.4

Yeah, it's a silly thing.

0:18.0

First of all, this is how I stumbled upon this, I think.

0:21.1

I remember reading this one thing. Recently there was an attempt at a record and the record is

0:29.1

the aircraft that has the longest endurance flight.

0:33.8

Now what does that mean to you when you hear endurance?

0:35.8

It means you don't land.

0:36.9

Right, exactly.

0:38.0

Oh, wait, no, I have another question.

0:39.6

What?

0:40.1

You don't land and it's one pilot or you're allowed to have another pilot that

0:44.4

sleeps in the back and then you keep swapping.

0:46.8

Great question. Well the particular aircraft that set this record is called the Zephyr, Z-E-P-H-Y-R, made by Airbus.

0:56.9

Now, back in the Wright Brother days,

0:59.8

have you ever seen the Wright Brother plane in our...

1:02.4

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina?

1:03.8

Yeah, the replica of it they have in Washington, D.C.

1:06.5

It's like a cotton fabric stretched over sticks and there's cables and it's awesome.

1:13.6

Yeah.

1:14.1

Yeah, they made a rudimentary airfoil.

1:16.5

Well, think about what we could do with modern technology.

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