This is a fun story of an endurance record flight in a Cessna as a publicity stunt for a Vegas casino.
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Next on the modification list was a “through-firewall” plumbing system, which would allow the oil and filters to be changed with the engine still running.
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Timm called off the third attempt, then fired his co-pilot, whose name has been lost to time because Timm never spoke of him again.
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Just twelve hours later, with the moon shining high overhead, it was time for the first refueling attempt. Timm and Cook maneuvered the plane over a predetermined stretch of abandoned roadway, where a truck with a modified fuel pump awaited them. As the plane came into sight, the driver of the truck floored his accelerator, while the two men in the air reduced their airspeed to a mere 65 miles per hour—any slower, and the Cessna would risk a stall, but a truck in 1958 couldn’t go much faster, certainly not while hauling around 600 pounds of liquid fuel.
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For three long minutes—and a distance of more than three miles—truck and plane were attached by a fragile, flammable umbilical cord, until the belly tank was satiated.
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https://www.damninteresting.com/the-...ssna-hacienda/
The plane eventually ended up in Saskatchewan, for a while. You can now see at at the Las Vegas airport.