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<\/div>\nJohn Skittone and Bob Reynolds broke aviation world record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A truly spectacular feat was done by two pilot buddies, who also set a world record as a result of their achievement.<\/p>\n
According to the Guinness World Record,<\/em><\/a> the fastest journey by plane through all 48 contiguous states is 1 day, 14 hours, and 13 minutes and was achieved by John Skittone and Robert Reynolds (both USA) from May 17 to 19, 2023.<\/p>\n The team decided to break this record for four reasons: personal accomplishment-while accomplishing a longstanding bucket list item to visit all 48 states in one trip; to promote general aviation; to demonstrate how easy it is to travel the country in a small aeroplane; and to encourage others to get out and see the world!<\/p>\n “So we just set a Guinness World Record for landing in all 48 of the lower contiguous states. We did it in 38 hours and 13 minutes,” pilot John Skittone told TMJ4 News.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Skittone and Bob Reynolds flew their plane to every state in the lower 48, landed, and then quickly took off again.<\/p>\n “The shortest distance we spent between two states was probably about four minutes and that happened twice Nebraska and Iowa and Ohio and West Virginia,” Skittone said.<\/p>\n This trip checked off a bucket list item for Skittone.<\/p>\n “You know, for me, it was personal. I have a bucket list. I wrote the bucket list about 15 years ago, and a lot of things on that list were aviation-related places I wanted to go, things that I wanted to see. Well, one of the things on that list – I wanted to visit all 48 states in the same trip,” he said.<\/p>\n Click for more trending news<\/a><\/div>\n