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#68 Phil Bozek | World Record Holder - Fastest Single Engine Plane Across the Atlantic

The Afterburn Podcast

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The TBM: A World Record

We had plenty of options. We could have gone up to ice winds quite easily. If everything went to crap, right before takeoff, we each got two bottles of Don Julio. The computer was programmed to hold 292 usable plus the overflow tanks. Once you use up all the fuel that's in the main tank, it doesn't actually keep counting fuel that's flowing in from your bladder. Which makes sense because it doesn't know how to do that. But at that point, it was like, all right, we're literally on paper figuring this thing out. At which point, he determined.

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