10 Amazing Pilots you've probably never heard of
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 3:08 am
From Flying Magazine
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Here is one of them.
[quote]Max Conrad
He Kept Going and Going and...
A friend of one of the most famous pilots of all, Charles Lindberg, Max Conrad's achievements as a pilot are equally as impressive. Born in 1903, Conrad accumulated more than [b]50,000 hours of flight time before his death in 1979, despite suffering brain damage after being hit by a propeller as a young man.[/b] He ran several successful flight schools, but after a fire destroyed a hangar with more than 30 of his airplanes inside it, he called it quits. Conrad set several distance and endurance records working as a ferry pilot of light airplanes. Some of those records still stand today, such as a nonstop flight from Casablanca, Morocco, to Los Angeles that took 58 hours 38 minutes. In 1961, Conrad flew around the world in a Piper Aztec — the first civilian airplane to land on the South Pole.
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Jebus 50K hours in the air! That is 5 Years and 7 Months aloft. Not sure if they are insinuating you need brain damage to fly that much...... Only 44K and a prop to the head more to go for me.
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Here is one of them.
[quote]Max Conrad
He Kept Going and Going and...
A friend of one of the most famous pilots of all, Charles Lindberg, Max Conrad's achievements as a pilot are equally as impressive. Born in 1903, Conrad accumulated more than [b]50,000 hours of flight time before his death in 1979, despite suffering brain damage after being hit by a propeller as a young man.[/b] He ran several successful flight schools, but after a fire destroyed a hangar with more than 30 of his airplanes inside it, he called it quits. Conrad set several distance and endurance records working as a ferry pilot of light airplanes. Some of those records still stand today, such as a nonstop flight from Casablanca, Morocco, to Los Angeles that took 58 hours 38 minutes. In 1961, Conrad flew around the world in a Piper Aztec — the first civilian airplane to land on the South Pole.
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Jebus 50K hours in the air! That is 5 Years and 7 Months aloft. Not sure if they are insinuating you need brain damage to fly that much...... Only 44K and a prop to the head more to go for me.