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ASI February 1999 Issue
. World Records certified By FAI
From 1st Jan 1999 to 31st Jan 1999

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Class B (Airships)
N° 5737 Size category BA-06 (Gas airships : 6 000 to 12 000 m³)
Category: General
Duration: 14h 08mn
Course/site: New York, NY (USA)
06/09/98, James O. GROSS (USA), John L. McHUGH, Kenneth W. PETSCHOW, H. Mark PINSKY
Airship : Skyship Industrie 600
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N° 5926 Size category BA-07 (Gas airships : 12 000 to 25 000 m³)
Category: General
Duration: 14h 08mn
Course/site: New York, NY (USA)
06/09/98, James O. GROSS (USA), John L. McHUGH, Kenneth W. PETSCHOW, H. Mark PINSKY
Airship : Skyship Industrie 600
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N° 5927 Size category BA-08 (Gas airships : 25 000 to 50 000 m³)
Category: General
Duration: 14h 08mn
Course/site: New York, NY (USA)
06/09/98, James O. GROSS (USA), John L. McHUGH, Kenneth W. PETSCHOW, H. Mark PINSKY
Airship : Skyship Industrie 600
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N° 5928 Size category BA-09 (Gas airships : 50 000 to 100 000 m³)
Category: General
Duration: 14h 08mn
Course/site: New York, NY (USA)
06/09/98, James O. GROSS (USA), John L. McHUGH, Kenneth W. PETSCHOW, H. Mark PINSKY
Airship : Skyship Industrie 600
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N° 5929 Size category BA-10 (Gas airships : 100 000 m³ and above)
Category: General
Duration: 14h 08mn
Course/site: New York, NY (USA)
06/09/98, James O. GROSS (USA), John L. McHUGH, Kenneth W. PETSCHOW, H. Mark PINSKY
Airship : Skyship Industrie 600
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Class C (Aeroplanes)
N° 5740 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 402.87 km/h
Course/site: Tokyo (Japan) - Osaka (Japan)
12/09/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA), Jesse F. ROUX
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61 500 lbs)
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N° 5741 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 597.17 km/h
Course/site: Taipei (Chinese Taipei) - Hong Kong (China)
14/09/98, David F. SPECHT (USA), Anil J. SINGH (USA)
Aircraft: Boeing 747-400 (4 PW4056, 56 750 lbs)
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N° 5743 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a commercial Air Route in excess of 6 500 km: 802.18 km/h
Course/site: Chicago, IL (USA) - Taipei (Chinese Taipei)
14/09/98, David F. SPECHT (USA), Anil J. Singh (USA)
Aircraft: Boeing 747-400 (4 PW4056, 56750 lbs)
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N° 5745 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 885.48 km/h
Course/site: Honolulu, HI (USA) - Nadi (Fiji Islands)
20/09/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61 500 lbs)
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N° 5746 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 795.87 km/h
Course/site: Nadi (Fiji Islands) - Sydney, NSW (Australia)
20/09/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61 500 lbs)
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N° 5747 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a commercial Air Route in excess of 6 500 km: 1047.63 km/h
Course/site: Tokyo (Japan) - Chicago, IL (USA)
23/09/98, Jay C. MALLORY (USA), P. Michael BRISTOW, J. Bradford LYNN, Ron L. PRIMROSE (USA)
Aircraft: Boeing 747-400 (4 PW4056, 56 750 lbs)
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N° 5748 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a commercial Air Route in excess of 6 500 km: 1010.44 km/h
Course/site: Tokyo (Japan) - Dallas, TX (USA)
23/09/98, James O. GROSS (USA), Dorothy V. SEYKORA (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11 (3 CF6-80C2, 61500 lbs)
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N° 5749 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 740.67 km/h
Course/site: Sydney, NSW (Australia) - Brisbane (Australia)
25/09/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61 500 lbs)
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N° 5750 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 870.28 km/h
Course/site: Brisbane, QLD (Australia) - Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)
25/09/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61 500 lbs)
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N° 5751 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 904.96 km/h
Course/site: Singapore - Osaka (Japan)
29/09/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61 500 lbs)
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N° 5754 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a commercial Air Route in excess of 6 500 km: 980.05 km/h
Course/site: Memphis, TN (USA) - Paris (France)
03/10/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61500 lbs)
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N° 5755 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a commercial Air Route in excess of 6 500 km: 837.9 km/h
Course/site: Paris (France) - Memphis, TN (USA)
06/10/98, Leiland M. DUKE, Jr. (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-11F (3 GE CF6-80C2, 61500 lbs)
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N° 5761 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 784,61 km/h
Course/site: Chicago, IL (USA) - El Paso, TX (USA)
13/10/98, Daniel J. CLISHAM (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (2 P&W JT8D, 20000 lbs)
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N° 5765 Sub-class C-1 (Landplanes)
Group 3 : turbo-jet
Speed over a Commercial Air Route: 818,5 km/h
Course/site: Chicago, IL (USA) - Montréal, PQ (Canada)
18/10/98, Daniel J. CLISHAM (USA)
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (2 P & W JT8D, 20000 lbs)
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N° 5762 Sub-class C-1b (Landplanes: take off weight 500 to 1000 kg)
Group 1 : piston engine
Speed over a recognised course: 171.19 km/h
Course/site: Phoenix, AZ (USA) - Palm Springs, CA (USA)
15/10/98, Alton K. MARSH (USA), David W. WEIGELT (USA)
Aircraft: Piper Tri-Pacer (1 Lycoming O-320, 160 bhp)
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Class G (Parachuting)
N° 5774 Sub-class G-2 (Group jumps)
Category: General; Competition / Team records
G-2-D : Canopy relative work, 4-way rotation: 20 stacks/plane
Course/site: Eloy, AZ (USA)
03/11/98, Russian National Team (Russia), Denis DODONOV (Russia), Oleg BALEEV (Russia), Alexei VOLYNSKIY
(Russia), Sergei FILIPPOV (Russia)
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Class O (Hang Gliders)
N° 5535 Sub-class O-2 (HG with a rigid primary structure / movable control surface(s))
Category: General
Straight distance: 404.7 km
Course/site: Hobbs, NM (USA) - Texline, TX (USA)
03/07/98, Ramy YANETZ (Israel)
Hang glider : Bright Star Millennium
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N° 5451 Sub-class O-3 (Paragliders)
Category: General
Speed over an out-and-return course of 100 km: 18.46 km/h
Course/site: Gnadenwald, Tirol (Austria)
02/06/98, Burkhard MARTENS (Germany)
Paraglider : Free-X Flair
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OTHER ARTICLES OF ASI FEBRUARY 1999 ISSUE
| Editorial | President's Page | From The Secretary General's Desk | Air Waves |
| News In Brief | Letters To The Editor | World Records |
| Blimps |
| Quiet Thrills |
| Making A Milestone |
| How Airplanes Fly |
| Obitury : Oran Wesley Nicks |

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