The incredible trip more than bet my wildest expectations. In my planning, I knew of one person who had crossed most of the coast to coast but not all of it, and it had taken about 20 days. We publicly set a target of 14 days or less, but I had told my team that I hoped to do it in 10 days.
I didn’t know if it was possible, but as it turns out we did it in less and had we not lost 1 day to weather and made a few minor changes, the trip could have been completed in just 6 days. The stats below are unofficial results and it will take some time for the actual records to be approved.
Totals
- Total Trip length: 9 days
- Total Trip time: 8 days, 2 hours, 8 minutes
- Total Flight time: 48 hours 19 minutes (48.3167)
- Total Number of Flights: 22
- Total Distance Covered: 2144.9
- Total Horizontal Distance: 2053.2 (deviation 91.7 miles 4.5%)
- Total Height Gain: 29.8 miles (Atmosphere 4x)
- Total Fuel: 58 Gallons
High / Low / Max / Most / Least / Average
- Highest Altitude: 12,444 MSL (Flight 6)
- Highest Altitude above Ground: 10,184 AGL (Flight 1, Day1)
- Max Ground Speed: 89.5 MPH (144 kph) (Flight 8, Day 3-Flight3)
- Average Ground Speed: 44.39 mph
- Slowest Ground Speed: 14 mph (Flight 4, Day 2-Flight1)
- Longest Flight: 3 hours 47 minutes (Flight 1, Day1)
- Shortest Flight: 55 Minutes (Flight 22, Day 8-Flight-1)
- Longest Distance Covered on a Flight: 173 miles (278.4 km) (Flight 10, Day 4-Flight2)
- Shortest Distance Covered on a Flight: 29.2 miles (47 km) (Flight 4, Day 2-Flight1)
- Max Lift: 906 fpm
- Most Flights in a Day: 4
- Least Flights in a Day 3 (0 on a weather day)
- Best Distance in a Day: 384.1 miles (day 3)
- Least Distance in a Day: 175.9 (day 2 – 2 flights)
- Average Distance per Day: 265 miles
- Most Flying in a Day: 8 hrs 10 min
- Least Flying in a Day: 5 hrs 23 min* (excludes last flight)
- Ave Flying in a Day: 6 hrs 09 min
- Best Wind: +43.5 (Tail)
- Worst Wind: -14 (Head)
- Deviation from course: 91.7 (0.045 = 4.5%)
Day / Distance Covered / Horizontal Distance / Height Gain / Time Flying
- Day 1: 245.6 / 234.2 / 25620 / 490 mins-8 hrs 10 min
- Day 2: 185.2 / 175.9 / 13172 / 323 mins-5 hrs 23 min
- Day 3: 384.1 / 364.9 / 27513 / 430 mins- 7 hrs 10 min
- Day 4: 0
- Day 5: 317.4 / 307.7 / 25023 / 462 mins- 7 hrs 42 min
- Day 6: 329.2 / 315.8 / 18258 / 408 mins- 6 hrs 48 min
- Day 7: 243.3 / 232.7 / 24747 / 335 mins- 5 hrs 35 min
- Day 8: 383 / 374 / 18570 / 429 mins- 7 hrs 09 min
- Day 9: 57.1 / 48.5 / 4616 / 79 mins- 1 hrs 19 min
Altitude Gained
It extends from Earth’s surface to an average height of about 12 km (7.5 mi; 39,000 ft), although this altitude varies from about 9 km (5.6 mi; 30,000 ft) at the geographic poles to 17 km (11 mi; 56,000 ft) at the Equator, with some variation due to weather.
Equipment Notes
- Blackhawk Paramotors Elite Frame
- Corsair Motors Black Devil 172
- Helix 3 Blade 130cm Props
- Broke 1 Prop
- Chopped 3 lines
- 2 Gliders – kph
- Hadron 3 : min = 24 ; trim = 45-58 ; max = 71 (+/- 3 km/h)* (46 mph)
- Snake 1.2 : min = 25; trim = 39 – 52; max = 65 + – 3 (42 mph)
Other claims of people who flew across the USA
- Will Gadd & Othar Lawrence 2001 (Unknow)
- Jonathan Sepp 2011 (18 days)
- Jean Francois Chabaud 2018 (20 days)
