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Seafeye
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My Uncle from Engkand built a Long Ez. He already flew it around the wirld. Now he is doing England/North America/ South America and maybe Antartica.
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Seafeye,
Do you know what your uncles routing was crossing the Pacific Ocean?
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The plan was to fly over Japan and go up through Russia. But the tsunami had just happened and he couldn't get permission to fly over. He was forced to put the airplane in a container and had it shipped to the west coast of Canada. I suspect he will do the flight again to close the gap.
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Gerry Mock flew Philippines, Guam , Wake, Hawaii, Oakland, navigating, day and night by DR and radio Compass.
I've flown that route with a four engine airplane and a professional navigator, a radio compass, LORAN, celestial, and everything else (before GPS) and still, at times, had the pucker string pulled up pretty tight.
Perhaps you can detect that I feel that Gerry Mock has NEVER received the credit due her for her accomplishment. Even among most of the aviation community, she is practically unknown. Sometime you should read her book, "38 Charley".
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