Chandler was part of one man’s attempt to set a world record over the weekend.
Pilot Michael Combs and his son, Daniel Routh, refueled Saturday morning at Chandler Municipal Airport, while trying to set a world record for a transcontinental flight in a light aircraft.
The two fell short of their goal with weather playing a factor, but did manage to get coast to coast in 49 hours.
As of Monday afternoon, the pair was starting back to California after making it to North Carolina.
Combs had a near-death experience three years ago and this flight was part of his dream to live out his goals and inspire others to do the same.
To learn more about their adventure, see flightHS.com.
ZenoOfCitium posted at 9:35 am on Wed, Jul 4, 2012.
I guess kudos for spirit but there are elements kinda hinky about this whole undertaking and attendant braggadocio (possibly due to missing info in the article and even on their website). First, even for light sport aircraft, 49 hours is scarcely a record coast to coast. I did it in 32 eastbound in 1979 in a Luscombe 8A (same weight class, lower HP) without any nav equipment... just charts. OK, 50 westbound thinking I'd never get out of Texas with those headwind. 24 hours in a 1986 Corvette. And despite GPS and glass panel, this Remos is NOT the "most technologically advanced LSA". Did it have autopilot? Fuel totalizer? ADS-B? Many others do. Thanks to power-hungry alphabet group (AOPA, EAA, NAFI) greed, shills like LAMA's Dan Johnson and Ultraflight Radio, plus the abundance of former UL cowboys as supposedly qualified LSA instructors, the Sport Pilot field suffers from credibility and safety issues that threaten its survival... a shame since it has great potential and should reflext American freedom and responsibility..