Source: Aero-News Network
Mooney's Vice President of Sales and Marketing and one of the company’s demonstration pilots established a new world record for speed over a recognized course in an Ovation2 GX on Sunday, April 2, 2006 enroute from Wichita, KS to Lakeland, Florida.
David Copeland, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing, and co-pilot Justin Milam departed Wichita at 7:51 AM and climbed directly to an altitude of 17,000 feet. They averaged 221.4 knots over the 967 mile route, landing in Lakeland at 1:12 PM local time for a total elapsed time from lift-off to touchdown of 4 hours and 21 minutes.
The new record is the second in as many years for Mooney. A Bravo GX flown by Mooney’s chief of flight test Paul Arambide set a National Aeronautics Association (NAA)-sanctioned world record between Mooney’s factory site in Kerrville, Texas and Lakeland last year in 2 hours and 54 minutes. The details of this year’s Wichita-Lakeland record flight have also been submitted to the NAA for review and certification as a record for piston powered aircraft in the 2,205-3,358 lb. category.
Mooney's Vice President of Sales and Marketing and one of the company’s demonstration pilots established a new world record for speed over a recognized course in an Ovation2 GX on Sunday, April 2, 2006 enroute from Wichita, KS to Lakeland, Florida.
David Copeland, the company’s vice president of sales and marketing, and co-pilot Justin Milam departed Wichita at 7:51 AM and climbed directly to an altitude of 17,000 feet. They averaged 221.4 knots over the 967 mile route, landing in Lakeland at 1:12 PM local time for a total elapsed time from lift-off to touchdown of 4 hours and 21 minutes.
The new record is the second in as many years for Mooney. A Bravo GX flown by Mooney’s chief of flight test Paul Arambide set a National Aeronautics Association (NAA)-sanctioned world record between Mooney’s factory site in Kerrville, Texas and Lakeland last year in 2 hours and 54 minutes. The details of this year’s Wichita-Lakeland record flight have also been submitted to the NAA for review and certification as a record for piston powered aircraft in the 2,205-3,358 lb. category.
