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Re: Next Oz K-Fest



"A2Aviator" <a2aviator@gmail.com> wrote in message 
6b8da2e0-1b01-432e-8f30-da2944ac93ad@k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com">news:6b8da2e0-1b01-432e-8f30-da2944ac93ad@k17g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
> Now.. lets see..  Approximately 60 hours at an average of 110 kts, to
> cover a great circle distance of 6533.5 nm from KOKB (Oceanside, CA
> USA) to YSSY (Sydney, NSW AU)  on a true heading of 241.2 degrees ..
>
> So, 60 hours. No place to go. Literally.
>
> KFest is about sleep deprivation...
>
> Except the temporary fuel tank holds 45 hours worth. B'ah humbug!

So what's wrong with a stopover in Hawaii? And maybe New Zealand?

:-)

(Of course, afterwards you'd have to turn around and do it all the other 
way!)
-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MS-DOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)