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On second try, helo pilots complete pole-to-pole flight

Pilots Jennifer Murray, 66, and Colin Bodill, 56, completed their record-setting VFR pole-to-pole round-trip flight from Fort Worth on May 23 in a Bell 407

By Mark Huber • Contributor

July 5, 2007

Pilots Jennifer Murray, 66, and Colin Bodill, 56, completed their record-setting VFR pole-to-pole round-trip flight from Fort Worth on May 23 in a Bell 407. The pair took 171 days to complete the feat and posted an average speed of just over nine miles per hour. Even at that modest pace, the flight was one for the record books as no one has completed a pole-to-pole helicopter journey before.

A Twin Otter flew chase and pre-positioned supplies for most of the flight. A plan to circumnavigate the globe via the poles collapsed due to overflight permit problems with Russia. Murray and Bodill flew a circuit route between the poles over the Americas.

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