www.PSFmagazine.com | February-March 2017 | 19 by Paul Hollingworth coast-to-coast record for gyros by flying from Dallas to Los Angeles to New York and back to Dallas. These guys knew all about flying long distances and I was keen to learn from their experiences. Vital intelligence was shared–the right kind of clothing, the way to make things as comfortable as possible in the gyro and the importance of bathroom stops… I went to bed with a lot on my mind. Day 1: We were planning to leave at 8am or so, but woke to find the whole area smothered in thick fog. “Oh well, we weren’ t in a hurry anyway,” I remember thinking, while hoping we wouldn’t be stuck for days. Dayton suddenly realized he needed to get a calibration certificate for the transponder so we did that, but then he heard that his father had just been in a car crash! Fortunately Dad, also a gyro and helicopter pilot, was fine, though his car was badly damaged. At around 10am the fog started to lift and with Dayton’s parents in reassuringly good health and there to see us off, we left Taylor airport at 10:45am. Leg 1–189 mi to San Angelo: Soon we were flying northwest over the beautiful green scenery and rolling hills of that part of Texas. With a welcome tailwind of 20mph+, progress was good. There was the odd surprise, such as
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