Most flying hours - pilot

Ed Long of Montgomery, Alabama, USA, logged 64,396 hours and 55 minutes of flying time between May 1933 and June 1999. A large portion of the more than seven years he has spent airborne was patrolling power lines for the Alabama Power Co. at altitudes below 30 meters (100 ft.). Ed Long died in Montgomery at 9:20 PM on July 17, 1999.  His last flight was a power line patrol flight on June 21, 1999.