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Back in the '20s or 30s, an endurance record was set by refueling via a long hose from another aircraft. I believe that they had a platform that they could stand on to maintain the engines in flight and add oil. That probably wouldn't work with a 172 though.

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Dave's right--that's one of the little sidebar stories in the Jeppesen Instr/Comm manual. I think they had a cracked cylinder eventually.

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There are displays for aeronautical history of the desert, including the plane that set an endurance record. It was shy of 65 days when they decided to land (some silly thing about going deaf and crazy and increasing oil consumption).


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I like that photo--McCarran looks just like a casino. But I'd be really wary of anything I hear about from Nevadans.

-Zach
 
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Um, what did they do with their um, bodily waste? Trade of with the fuel deliverer?

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Boy the fun I could have with that idea.
I can see it now, you are about to fly over someone's house that you hate and you have a fresh "batch" of ammo. You fly in low, line it up, aim and then.... FIRE lol
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lol lol lol Imagine the impact! ha ha ha
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Just imagine if they were outside: "Oh, look it's an air drop"
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"OH NO, NO, NOOOOOOOOO"
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Talk about an airstrike!
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Back in the '20s or 30s, an endurance record was set by refueling via a long hose from another aircraft. I believe that they had a platform that they could stand on to maintain the engines in flight and add oil. That probably wouldn't work with a 172 though.

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And for those that care, the plane is in the Smithsonian right across from the Hughes Racer....
 
Try again. It says carrying a person for hire, that is a paying passenger. If you go out and rent a plane to fly yourself and your friends around, nobody is hiring anybody to do anything. One hundered hour inspectinos are not required for rental aircraft.
 
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Try again. It says carrying a person for hire, that is a paying passenger. If you go out and rent a plane to fly yourself and your friends around, nobody is hiring anybody to do anything. One hundered hour inspectinos are not required for rental aircraft.

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You just tell that to the FAA guy when he asks for the paperwork after the crash.
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I've read about those guys. They had rigged the plane in such a way that they could change the oil in flight and would fly low and slow above a straight road or runway and get supplies from a fast moving car running beneath them. I think there is a small "shrine" in the North Las Vegas airport about the flight.

I work at a company that, amongst other things, rents aircraft. We are required to do 100 hour inspections. While my regs are at work right now, I believe the key is in what the aircraft is used for, not if the pilot is for hire. Since the aircraft is being used for a business it needs the inspection. Every so often the FAA comes and inspects our records and talks to the mechanics. They would not be pleased with us if we missed one or overflew the 100 hours. Of course if you have ownership in the plane, that is a different story.
 
ok, here is the way it works. If the airplane is used strictly for rental it doesn't need a 100 hour inspection. Now, if you use it for instruction or to give someone a checkout in so they can rent it it does need the inspection. So, if the airplane is strictly rental, no instruction, checkouts, etc... it does not need one. It's simple, just take one or two of the 172s that are no different form the rest of the fleet and make them rental only aircraft, you can check the people out in one of the others then have them rent the one that is rental only.
In this case the aircraft is not being used for hire, think about it this way, if renting an airplane as a Private Pilot and taking a passenger with you was considered to be for hire you would be in trouble for operating an aircraft for hire as a Private Pilot.
Many places tend to 100 hour all of their fleet because the fleet is too small to hold one or two out for rental only, or in some cases they don't realize they can.
 
OK, so technically I was wrong in saying that rental airplanes need 100-hours. But since 99% of all rental airplanes (in my experience) are also used for flight instruction, or checkouts, then almost all rental planes are required to have 100-hours.
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Yup! You have two main benefits: you can take a checkride without the 100hr inspection. You can fly aircraft without the 100hr inspection, as long as you don't get flight instruction in it.
 
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