Some more search links regarding this event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_endurance_record
https://jalopnik.com/5971433/how-a-slot-machine-mechanic-flew-150000-miles-over-64-days-without-landing
https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/one-long-flight-5379
I forgot to mention today at 3:52 PM is the 60th anniversary of the take off into the history books for Robert Timm, and John Cook Sr.
Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed reading that article. How fun you knew the copilot and were friends with his son! Major personal significance for you.
A 10-hour flight is long enough in an airplane seat to get my spine screaming at me for relief. It’s still aching from a flight that landed on Friday evening.
I can’t imagine what Mr. Cook must have felt.
Great read, thanks. It brought back some memories because around that same time Chuck Banfe the father of a class mate of mine was making a solo flight around the world and we were all tracking his hops and listening for reports on our little am radios.