I had the pleasure of driving the pilot to his aircraft for departure to Bankstown shortly. He had quite an interesting story on his flight; his longest leg was a total of 26 hours in the cockpit.
Mick, you were right with the fuel...he said he was about 400kg over MTOW, but had FAA approval as it was a ferry flight. He said he still had 750' climb on departure from mainland US at the start of a 14hr totally black night enroute to Hilo.
I didn't ask him about the bladder issue...
The aircraft will be based at Bankstown.
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