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New C-1A World speed record
Posted on Friday, 07 May 2024 @ 18:00:56 EDT by admin |
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Anonymous writes "
Robert "Hoot" Gibson established a new (unofficial) speed record in class C-1a (661-1,102 pounds) when he flew his 100-hp, 845-pound Cassutt racer an average speed of 238.14 mph in a 100 km closed-circuit course on April 28. That breaks the 20-year-old mark of 229.41 mph flown on July 31, 1984, by James Miller in the Miller GEM 260. Gibson beat the standing mark by well over 1%, the margin required by the National Aeronautic Association for new speed records.
Gibson, a retired astronaut and decorated naval pilot, flew a 104.17 km course from his hometown Murfreesboro (Tennessee) Airport to the McMinnville Airport and back. Speed was calculated using a straight-line distance between those two airports.
"It looks very good," Gibson said. "All of the data looks pretty bulletproof. We had three stopwatches and they were all within a quarter of a second of each other. "I can finally relax for a little bit now that I have this obsession with a record flight out of my way."
This is Gibson's third overall world record and the second he's achieved in his very much-modified Cassutt. In 1991 he set a world altitude record in the airplane, then in 1994 established a time-to-climb record in Bruce Bohannon's Pushy Galore and last week he needed to break the speed record!
"The fact that it's in my airplane that I put together and tweaked up over the years, making it faster and faster and faster, and the fact that it has two radically different world records, one altitude and one speed, I'm just tickled, because there aren't too many airplanes in the world that have established separate altitude and speed records," Gibson said.
The only strict requirement for the record flight is to be at level altitude for at least one kilometer before the start. Gibson was at 1,500 AGL (2,100 MSL) for two nautical miles just to make sure. You must also finish at the same height or higher than you started. Gibson crossed the finish line 200 feet higher than the start, again, just to make sure.
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