Word: riedel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny, single-engined Aeronca, Pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel, of Fullerton, Calif., broke a ten-year-old flight endurance record (726 hours), vowed to stay aloft until they had passed 1,000. To refuel, they dropped to five feet from the ground, picked up fuel, oil and food from a car speeding down the runway at 70 miles an hour...
...After circling over Indio, Calif. since Nov. 20, Endurance Flyers Dick Riedel and Bill Barris discovered that their Aeronca plane's carburetor was icing, were forced to land after spending 568 hours and 47 minutes aloft. The endurance record (set by two Long Beach, Calif. flyers in 1939) still stood at 726 hours...