The Sesna, a Longhaul Airplane

The one 72 came as a four seat, single engine plane. The men rigged up a hook attached to a rope that they could lower to a gas truck driving below. Meals for the pilots were made at the hotel each day by the cooks there. By the time they finally landed on february seventh of 19 59, 64 days later, they had clocked over 150 thousand miles,. performed 128 mid air refuelings and broken the endurance record set months earlier.