Good old Barry Schiff!

 

He’s always coming up with questions in his forum in the AOPA Pilot Magazine that amaze me…….guess I’ll never stop learning???

 

Page 119 of the January 2002 issue (am I really that far behind in my reading, OUCH!) has an interesting fact.  The world record for the number of parachute jumps in a 24 hour period is (can you believe this number?) 500 set by Mike Zang near Fort Worth Texas in May of 2001.  Barry goes on to say that pilot Tom Bishop might have set the world record for take offs and landings in a 24 hour period.

 

I am assuming that there must have been at least two different planes, otherwise, how could they have gassed up and still averaged a jump each 2 minutes and 53 seconds?  I am sending Barry an email asking what kind of plane/s was/were used.  I will post his answer for the “curious ones”.

 

Now, back to the subject line:  I am reminded of the recent post on engine cooling on the LML stating something like “engines with lots of high power climbs and rapid power off descents have higher average TBO’s than the average general aviation aircraft in use by owners” (or words to that effect).  The aircraft/s used in this world record setting event certainly had significant rapid heating and cooling cycles.

 

Something to think about?

 

Ron Brice

Legacy N27RM, about 4 weeks from flying (I hope!)