World Speed Record; Gulfstream IISP to Establish a World Speed Record.News Editors/Business Editors LOS ANGELES/KITTY HAWK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 2003 Clay Lacy will fly from Los Angeles to Kitty Hawk NC today to establish a World Speed Record in honor of the first powered flight by Orville and Wilbur Wright which occurred 100 years ago this Wednesday. Clay will depart Los Angeles at 8:00 am (PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there ) December 15th and expects to arrive Kitty Hawk in just under 4 hours to establish a record of well over 600 mph. Landing time at Kitty Hawk will be about 3:00 pm (EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy ). "I believe this is a great way to honor and pay tribute to the first powered flight of a Heavier than Air Machine," Lacy said. "We will establish this new World Speed Record with a Gulfstream IISP IISP Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (ANSI) IISP Interim Interswitch Signaling Protocol IISP Institute of Information Security Professionals IISP International Institute for Software Process updated with Performance Enhancing Blended Winglet wing·let n. 1. A small or rudimentary wing. 2. A short, almost vertical stabilizing fin projecting from the tip of an aircraft wing. Technology." Noted aviation dignitaries accompanying Clay on the flight will include Bob Hoover of World War II and aerobatic fame, John Meyers, former senior executive of Northrop and a Lockheed Flying Wing test pilot who is also a trustee of the National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, and is the most popular of the Smithsonian museums. It maintains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world. and Joe Clark, founder, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Aviation Partners Inc, the company which developed the new technology Blended Winglets on the Gulfstream IISP. Renowned KTLA KTLA KCBS TV in Los Angeles Channel 5 Los Angeles television anchorman Hal Fishman, a pilot and a member of Clay's team on many previous World Speed Record flights, is onboard today's flight as one of the pilots. Clay holds 28 World Records including a World Speed Record from Los Angeles to Paris and Moscow to Los Angeles aboard this same Gulfstream IISP in 1995 and the Absolute Around the World Record in 1988. Clay's Around the World record, flying a Boeing 747, raised over $530,000. for children's charities. In 1970 Clay won the National Championship Air Races at Reno NV flying his P-51 Mustang. Currently President of Clay Lacy Aviation, Van Nuys CA and Seattle WA, Clay has logged over 50,000 flight hours aboard just about every type of aircraft in the skies and may well be the highest time pilot in the world. |
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