Part D. Long Duration Flights

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1 Page 1 of 11 Gas Balloon First successful Atlantic flight by balloon. 137 h 6 min Maxie Leroy Anderson Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman AA Longest flight by female pilot. Pollution research 133 h 45 min Vera Simons Rudolph Engleman, Fred Hyde, Randy Birch AA Atlantic attempt. 107 h 37 min Edward Yost AA First North America coast to coast flight. 99 h 54 min Maxie Leroy Anderson Kristian Anderson AA Atlantic attempt. First East-west. 94 h 30 min Arnold Eiloart Tim Eiloart, Colin Mudie, Rosmary Mudie AA th Gordon Bennett race 1995, 1st place. World duration record, AA 7 Bernd Landsmann 92 h 11 min AA World distance AA 6 to AA 9 and duration record AA 6 89 h 20 min David Hempleman-Adams AA Distance and Duration record. (AA 8) 87 h 0 min Hugo Kaulen Alfred Schmitz AA rd Gordon Bennett Race, 1st place 85 h 18 min Sebastien Rolland AA First Pacific crossing by Balloon. 84 h 31 min Ben L. Abruzzo Larry M Newman, Rocky Aoki, Ron Clark AA th Gordon Bennett Race th place 84 h 5 min Gerald Stürzlinger Johann Fürstner AA First solo Atlantic crossing by balloon. 83 h 40 min Joseph W. Kittinger AA Soviet distance record. (AA 8) 83 h 29 min Serge A. Sinovjev S. S. Gaigerov, M. M. Kirpichev AA th Gordon Bennett Race, 2nd place 83 h 14 min Ulrich Seel AA th Gordon Bennett Race, 3rd place 82 h 31 min David Hempleman-Adams Simon Carey AA015

2 Page 2 of Attempt to cross the Pacific. 82 h 0 min Fumio Niwa AA th Gordon Bennett race 1995, 3rd place 80 h 47 min Johann Fürstner Gerald Stürzlinger AA World Duration record, AA 6 80 h 18 min AA rd Gordon Bennett Race, 5th place 80 h 7 min Christian Stoll Walter Mattenberger AA th Gordon Bennett race st place 77 h 47 min Jean-François Leÿs AA rd Gordon Bennett Race, 2nd place 77 h 0 min Kurt Frieden Pascal Witpraechtiger AA nd Gordon Bennett Race, 2nd place 76 h 21 min Gerald Stürzlinger Helmut Meierhofer AA Los Angeles Gordon Bennett race Duration record AA 6 75 h 10 min Ben L. Abruzzo Larry M Newman AA nd Gordon Bennett Race, 5th place 74 h 24 min John A Cayton Stuart Enloe AA nd Gordon Bennett Race, 1st place 74 h 12 min David Hempleman-Adams Jonathan Mason AA nd Gordon Bennett Race, 3rd place 73 h 36 min Peter Cueno AA First North American transcontinental solo flight. Distance record AA 6 Solo fight 73 h 20 min AA th Gordon Bennett Race % penalty, ATC violation 73 h 2 min Kurt Frieden Stefan Zeberli AA rd Gordon Bennett race st place. North Sea crossing 73 h 1 min Theodor Schaeck Emil Messner AA th Gordon Bennett race st place 72 h 1 min Bernd Landsmann AA World Distance record 72 h 0 min Joseph W. Kittinger AA031

3 Page 3 of th America's Challenge, 1st place 71 h 31 min David Hempleman-Adams Jonathan Mason AA rd Gordon Bennett Race, 3rd place 71 h 20 min Cheryl White AA th Gordon Bennett Race th place 70 h 48 min Peter Cueno AA th Gordon Bennett Race % penalty, ATC violation 70 h 32 min Danielle Frankoeur Leo Burman AA th Gordon Bennett race st place 70 h 4 min Bernd Landsmann AA th Gordon Bennett race th place 70 h 0 min Heinrich Brachtendorf Jürgen Schubert AA th Gordon Bennett race st place 69 h 59 min Jean-François Leÿs AA th Gordon Bennett race nd place 69 h 38 min Rien Jurg Ron van Houten AA nd Gordon Bennett Race, 4th place 69 h 32 min Ulrich Seel AA th Gordon Bennett Race % penalty, ATC violation 69 h 30 min Phillip MacNutt AA th Gordon Bennett race rd place 69 h 28 min Philippe de Cock Ronny van Havere AA th America's Challenge, 2nd place 69 h 24 min Peter Cueno AA rd Gordon Bennett Race, 6th place, World record, feminine duration Janet Folkes Ann Rich 69 h 22 min AA Distance and Duration record. (AA 5) 69 h 20 min Boris A. Neverov S. S. Gaigerov AA th Gordon Bennett race 1995, 2nd place 69 h 14 min J. Michael Wallace Kevin Brielmann AA th Gordon Bennett Race, 1st place 69 h 2 min Sebastien Rolland AA047

4 Page 4 of th America's Challenge, 2nd place 68 h 46 min Troy Bradley Jonathan Trappe AA th America's Challenge, 1st place 68 h 35 min Cheri White AA th Americas Challenge 2002, 3rd place 67 h 15 min Cheri White AA th Gordon Bennett Race th place 67 h 2 min Stanislaw Fuodoroff Sergey Grishin AA th Americas Challenge 2002, 4th place 66 h 58 min Frank Wechter Thomas Boylan AA th Gordon Bennett Race st place 66 h 53 min Philippe de Cock Ronny van Havere AA th Gordon Bennett race 1993, 2nd place 66 h 2 min Bernd Landsmann AA th Americas Challenge 2002, 7th place 66 h 0 min Greg Winker, GER AA th Gordon Bennett Race nd place 66 h 0 min Ulrich Seel AA th Gordon Bennett race th place 65 h 54 min David N. Levin AA First manned arctic flight, first aerial exploration. 65 h 35 min Salomon August Andrée Nils Strindberg, Knut Fraenkel AA Atlantic attempt. 65 h 30 min Maxie Leroy Anderson Ben Abruzzo AA US coast to coast attempt. 65 h 30 min John Shoecraft Ron Ripps AA th Gordon Bennett race th place 65 h 15 min David N. Levin AA rd Gordon Bennett Race, 4th place 65 h 12 min Andy Cayton Sam Canders AA RE/MAX Cup 1999, 2nd place 65 h 8 min John Kugler Ralph "Red" Sheesh AA063

5 Page 5 of th Gordon Bennett Race st place. World distance record AA 6 64 h 59 min Bob Berben Benoît Siméons AA th Gordon Bennett Race rd place 64 h 45 min David Hempleman-Adams Jonathan Mason AA RE/MAX Cup 1999, 1st place 64 h 17 min Carol Rymer Davis AA th America's Challenge 2000, 1st place 64 h 4 min David N. Levin Alan S. Levin AA RE/MAX Cup 1999, 4th place 63 h 49 min Shane Robinson Marsha Neal AA th Gordon Bennett Race, 5th place 63 h 25 min Matthias Zenge Markus Pieper AA th Americas challenge 2003, 1st place 63 h 14 min Carol Rymer Davis AA th Gordon Bennett Race th place 63 h 10 min Tomas Hora Volker Löschhorn AA th Americas Challenge 2003, 2nd place 63 h 7 min Peter Cuneo AA th America's Challenge 2000, 2nd place 62 h 59 min Carol Rymer Davis AA th Gordon Bennett race th place 62 h 19 min Alan Fraenckel John Stuart-Jervis AA th America's Challenge, 1st place 62 h 19 min Cheryl White AA st America's Challenge 1995, 2nd place 62 h 12 min J. Michael Wallace Kevin Brielmann AA RE/MAX Cup 1999, 3rd place 62 h 10 min James Hershend Jack R. Holland AA th Gordon Bennett race th place 62 h 9 min Stefan Makne Grzegorz Antkowiak AA th America's Challenge, 3rd place 62 h 4 min Peter Cueno AA079

6 Page 6 of RE/MAX Cup 1999, 5th place 61 h 57 min Johnny Petrehn Sam Parks AA th Americas Challenge, 1st place 61 h 30 min John A Cayton Stuart Enloe AA Distance record. (AA 4) 61 h 30 min F. Bourlouski A. I. Aleshin AA rd Gordon Bennett race rd place 61 h 22 min Johann Fürstner Gerald Stürzlinger AA th America's Challenge, 2nd place 61 h 19 min Leonid Tyukhtyaev AA RE/MAX Cup 1999, 8th place 60 h 35 min David N. Levin Alan S. Levin AA th America's Challenge, 1st place 60 h 27 min John A Cayton Kevin Knapp AA RE/MAX Cup 1999, 7th place 60 h 25 min Lesley Pritchard Davies Tom Davies AA st America's Challenge 1995, 1st place 60 h 13 min David L. Melton AA st America's Challenge 1995, 4th place. World records, AA 6 60 h 12 min Lesley Pritchard Davies Carol Rymer Davis AA th America's Challenge 1998, 2nd place 60 h 6 min Crispin Williams, UK AA th Gordon Bennett race 1993, 1st place 59 h 29 min Josef Starkbaum Rainer Roehsler AA th Gordon Bennett Race, 2nd place 59 h 13 min Kurt Frieden Pascal Witpraechtiger AA rd Gordon Bennett race th place 59 h 7 min Jurg Rein Ron van Houten AA th America's Challenge 1998, 1st place 58 h 55 min Troy Bradley Tami Stevenson-Bradley AA RE/MAX Cup 1999, 6th place 58 h 42 min Troy Bradley Bruce Hale AA095

7 Page 7 of th Gordon Bennett Race, 1st place 58 h 37 min Kurt Frieden Pascal Witpraechtiger AA th America's Challenge 2001, 1st place 58 h 23 min Peter Cuneo AA th America's Challenge, 1st place 58 h 16 min Peter Cueno AA th America's Challenge, 3rd place 58 h 2 min William MacNutt Philip Bryant AA rd Gordon Bennett race st place 57 h 54 min Zbigniew Burzynski Wladyslav Wysocki AA th Gordon Bennett race th place 57 h 50 min Josef (Bepperl) Höhl Stefan Handl AA th America's Challenge, 2nd place 57 h 15 min Danielle Franceur Linda Ellis AA Long duration flight. Winner of Santos-Dumont Medal 56 h 0 min Victor de Beauclair AA th Gordon Bennett Race, 4th place 55 h 53 min Sebastien Rolland AA th Gordon Bennett race th place. 55 h 30 min Max Imstepf Kurt Frieden AA First US coast to coast flight. 55 h 25 min John Shoecraft Fred Gorrell AA th Gordon Bennett race th place 54 h 28 min Thomas Lewetz Silvia Wagner AA th Gordon Bennett race nd place 54 h 18 min J. Michael Wallace Kevin Brielmann AA th Gordon Bennett. Participant 53 h 49 min Tomas Hora Volker Löschhorn AA th Gordon Bennett race st place 53 h 42 min Jean-François Leÿs AA nd Gordon Bennett Race, 6th place 53 h 9 min Tomas Hora Volker Löschhorn AA111

8 Page 8 of th Gordon Bennett race st place. First female copilot winner. 52 h 52 min Carol Rymer Davis AA th Gordon Bennett race 1993, 4th place 52 h 36 min Thomas Lewetz Silvia Wagner AA th America's Challenge 2000, 3rd place 52 h 25 min Troy Bradley Earl Miller AA th Gordon Bennett race rd place 51 h 31 min Ward Tunte van Orman Walter W. Morton AA th Gordon Bennett race nd place 51 h 0 min Thomas G. W. "Tex" Settle Kendall AA Long duration flight 50 h 22 min Franz Josef "Jojo" Maes Ronald Barkley AA117

9 Page 9 of 11 Hot Air Balloon First flight over 50 hours in Hot Air Balloon. AX h 38 min Michio Kanda Hirosuke Takezawa AX First Pacific crossing by Hot Air Balloon, AX h 15 min Per Axel Lindstrand Richard Branson AX Duration record, AX h 29 min Masakazu Oiwa Sabu Ichiyoshi AX Duration record, AX h 12 min Hélène Dorigny Michel Arnould AX First Atlantic crossing by Hot Air Balloon. Distance record AX h 41 min Per Axel Lindstrand Richard Branson AX Duration record, AX 8 29 h 14 min William E. Bussey AX Distance and duration records, AX h 6 min Michel Arnould Helene Dorigny AX Distance record, AX h 23 min Harold Warner Phillip A. Johnson AX Distance record, AX 7 24 h 12 min John R. Petrehn AX Duration record, AX h 8 min Bruce P. Comstock David Schaffer AX Duration record, AX 6 23 h 55 min John A Cayton AX World duration record, AX 4 23 h 11 min Richard Jaworski AX Duration record, AX 6 21 h 55 min Jon P. Kolba AX Duration record, AX 6 21 h 13 min William E. Bussey AX14

10 Page 10 of 11 Rozière Balloon First Around-the-World Flight. 477 h 47 min Bertrand Piccard Brian Jones AM Around the World attempt. Absolute duration record 425 h 41 min Andrew Charles (Andy) Elson Colin Kenrick Prescot AM Second Around-the-World Flight. First solo flight Around-the-World 355 h 50 min AM First South Pacific crossing, first solo flight over 300 hours. Duration record AM h 57 min AM Around-the-World attempt. Duration reord AM h 28 min Kevin J. Uliassi AM Around the World attempt. Absolute World duration record. AM h 55 min Bertrand Piccard Andy Elson AM Around the World attempt. First South Atlantic crossing, first Indian ocean crossing. 205 h 59 min AM Around the World attempt. First flight across Asia 177 h 57 min Per Axel Lindstrand Richard Branson, AM Atlantic crossing. AM8-10 duration record 146 h 49 min Laurent Lajoye Christophe Houver AM Around the World attempt. First over 3 continents. First to make 2 Atlantic crossings. 146 h 44 min AM First Transatlantic Balloon Race. Bangor, Maine Sep h 16 min Troy Bradley AM First flight to the North Pole (and back) 132 h 22 min David Hempleman-Adams AM First successful East-West Atlantic crossing. AM 7distance record 129 h 10 min Thomas Feliu Jesus Gonzales Green AM First Transatlantic Balloon Race, second place. Bangor, Maine Sep 16 Donald A. Cameron Rob Bayly 124 h 6 min AM First Transatlantic Balloon Race. Bangor, Maine Sep h 33 min Evert Louwman Gerhard Hoogeslag AM15

11 Page 11 of Winner of first Transatlantic Balloon Race. Bangor, Maine Sep h 20 min Wim Verstraeten Bertrand Piccard AM Fastest Atlantic crossing. First to make 3 Atlantic crossings. 108 h 23 min AM First solo flight across the Pacific. 102 h 14 min AM Atlantic attempt. 96 h 24 min Donald A. Cameron Chris Davey AM First transatlantic flight in an open wicker basket 83 h 17 min David Hempleman-Adams AM First Transatlantic Balloon Race. Bangor, Maine Sep h 23 min Erich Krafft Jochen Maas AM Atlantic crossing. 75 h 18 min Tim Cole AM Colorado to Pennsylvania 61 h 25 min Bruce P. Comstock Helshe AM World altitude record, AM 8. Flight across Australia 56 h 27 min Steven Wayne Griffin AM First flight across Tasman Sea 55 h 17 min Dick Smith John Wallington AM First successful Atlantic crossing by Rozière balloon. 51 h 14 min Henk Brink Evelien Brink, Willem Hageman AM Round-The-World Attempt. 51 h 13 min AM27 Superpressure Balloon World Distance record, AS 6 33 h 9 min Julian Nott Spider Anderson AS US duration record, AS 3 32 h 30 min Tom F. Heinsheimer Peter Neushul AS US distance and duration record, AS 3 31 h 44 min Tom F. Heinsheimer Peter Neushul AS Distance, duration and altitude records, AS 2 12 h 28 min Coy Foster Solo AS04