As we have seen with the study of Dr. Marks' flight around the world, Dr. Hypolite Landry followed the same route.
The only difference between the 2 flights are that their pilots departed from their respective towns
( Sacramento for Marks and Baton Rouge, Louisiana for Landry).
The two doctors obviously did this purposely. They set up speed records and in order not to compete against each
other, they set up their records, not from point to point, but from their respective starting points and the various airports
where they stopped for the first half of the flight, then from those airports to the finishing point. As they were starting
and finishing at different towns ( Sacramento and Baton Rouge) there was no competition between them.
landry flew a Beechcraft Bonanza, registration N5842K.
The records can be seen on the "Data" page.
Like Marks, the only minor problems he experienced were with the weather.
While Marks flew in April, Landry flew in may 1969.
Landry took off from Baton Rouge in Louisiana on May 2d, 1969 flying to Hamilton in Bermuda.
The next stops were Santa Maria in the Azores ; Madrid (Spain), Athens (Greece), Tehran (Iran), Karachi (Pakistan),
New Delhi (India), Bangkok (Thailand), Singapore, and Manila (Philippines). Flying over the Pacific Ocean, Landry flew
from Aguana on the Island of Guam to Wake Island, and finally to Honolulu in Hawaii, and then the long Pacific
crossing to San Fransisco and to his departure point in Baton Rouge. He arrived home on May 25, 1969.
Total time was 13 days, 9 hours and 20 minutes.
