Sentence examples for flight duration record from inspiring English sources

It circumnavigated the South Pole three times during the first flight, which set a flight duration record of 42 days.

The pilots – who took off on Saturday from Japan – are pursuing a flight duration record of 137 hours aloft set in 1978 by a team crossing the Atlantic.

On Tuesday, he broke the unofficial flight duration record of 10 days 3 hours alone in a balloon, set last year by another American, Kevin Uliassi.

Lieutenant Frank Purdy Lahm joined Orville for a flight of 1 hour 12 min. 374/5 sec., setting a new world's duration record for flight with a passenger.

The extra day in space set a record for shuttle flight duration.

Paulhan took part in many airshows, including several in the United States of America, and in Douai, where in July 1909 he set new records for altitude and flight duration.

The last entry in his flight book by Eduard Neumann read: "Flight duration 54 minutes, time of landing "black cross".

The trans-Atlantic flight set records for distance in a straight line — 1,882 miles — and flight duration: 38 hours, 52 minutes, 14 seconds.

The DASYLab program (Measuring Computing, Norton, MA) was used to record the flight parameters such as the number of rotations per flight and flight duration.

Troy Bradley of Albuquerque and Leonid Tiukhtyaev of Russia lifted off from Japan last Sunday morning and by Friday they had beaten what was considered the holy grail of ballooning achievements, the 137-hour duration record set in 1978 by the Double Eagle crew of Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman in the first balloon flight across the Atlantic.

The time lapse between the spikes revealed flight duration.