I just came across a small piece in an aviation newspaper that mentioned in passing that
Clay Lacey, retired United Air Lines pilot, charter fleet and FBO owner, movie pilot, former military test pilot, world record holder, and one time Reno air race pilot…has something like 50,000 flying hours.
I’ve heard of pilots with 20 or 25,000 hours but never 50,000.
Does anyone else come close?
Or is that a pretty standard figure for older or retired airline pilots?
By: J Boyle - 16th January 2008 at 16:28
And it is spelled Clay LACY, not Lacey….
Of course…:o
I finally met the man last summer (a few months after this thread was created)…and when asked he modestly said he had “about 53-54,000 hours”.
Nice chap.
By: Finny - 16th January 2008 at 12:14
And it is spelled Clay LACY, not Lacey….
By: Newforest - 16th January 2008 at 09:43
Another challenger for the record has passed away, 65,000 hours, Eddie Duffard. Imagine how many log books that would need.
By: Newforest - 17th April 2007 at 22:52
Ed Long, 64,000 hours!
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/science/9812/31/tt.record.pilot/index.html
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