60 hours!!

Tyler and the team did a great job the beat the world record by 10 hours. the old world record was 70 and Tyler and the team got 60 hours. I'm very proud of him! He was supper tired when he got back he only 2 or 3 hours of sleep the hole 3 days they were flying. but he said it was worth it. It was a great opportunity that will help his career in lots of way. And kinda of a once in a life time thing that he can look back on. He was very happy when i came to see him land in SD and drive him home. He could have flown back to French Vally but it was a long trip and he was ready to get out of that helicopter and relax and sleep poor guy. Any ways they made great time. They ran into one storm in Alabama and had some pretty strong head wind on the way back that slowed them down and at one point they thought there hydrolic system had failed them because it was leaking but was OK. so those were some of the only set backs so not to bad tho. so here are some pic's :)
From Left - Roy, Bill ( owner of Helicopter), Tyler and Johan ( Ty's instructor ) So there are 2 very experienced pilots and two younger Pilots .



They are in Tyler Texas :)
This is a pilots lounge were they got free hot dogs and ice cream.
A storm they hit in Alabama.
cleaning window.

Fueling up.


Fueling up again.
Helicopter R-44 Raven II