I reported the other day that Dustin and Kraig Coomber had set the new Ecuadorian cross country distance record and that the old record was 40 km. Well, the old record was the Guayaquil record, the previous Ecuadorian cross country record was as follows:

Rafael and Fausto Arcos at Rarcos Ingenieria <<rarcos>> write:

The standing cross country record until a few days ago was 71KM.
This flight occurred in 1987. The pilot was Collin King from Atlanta, Georgia
flying a Moyes GTR. The flight originated in Quito and finished close to the
base of Cotopaxi Volcano in the region of Lasso. The flight in Guayaquil
yesterday broke the local low lands 40km record and became the longest flight in
Ecuador to date.

It's great to have a memory of an early record flight, from an American, of all people.