How Did This Plane Fly Continuously For 64 Days? | The Longest Continuous Flight Ever

How did a plane fly continuously for 64 days? Usually, when we think of long-endurance flights, the first thought that comes to our mind is about military operations. Since highly trained crews fly the most advanced military aircraft for longer durations, with air-to-air refueling or Aerial refueling to stay in the air for longer periods. But the plane which has done this outstanding job this time is not a military plane but a tiny plane. So let's know the complete story about this longest flight ever.

Actually, it is an incident of 1956 when Warren Bayley and his wife Judy Bayley together opened a hotel in Las Vegas city, named Hacienda Hotel, a little away from the city in a quiet place. But because this hotel was in a secluded place, so no one often visited there, so they had to get their hotel advertised. That's when a person named, Bob Timm, came up with an amazing idea for advertising, he said that let's buy a plane and make continuous fly by writing the name of this hotel on it and make a world record. After that, this wonderful process started, as they first bought a tiny plane, named Cessna 172. Then they modified it and arranged facilities for two pilots to sleep, bathe, and fresh in it and attached another tank for fuel. 

Then two pilots named Bob Timm and John Cook took the plane into the sky over the desert in the Southwestern United States. The plane kept flying for hours, and with the help of a truck, the plane started refueling daily and food items were also provided to the pilots. Every day the plane was refueled twice in the same way and both the pilots continued to fly the plane by taking a break of 4 hours one by one. Similarly, after flying the plane for 64 consecutive days, when the plane's engine started getting damaged, the pilots landed the plane safely after setting a record of 64 days, 22 hours, and 19 minutes, which became the longest flight in history. The Cessna 172 stayed in the air from December 1958 to February 1959, and their world endurance record in a tiny plane still stands today.