Its pretty easy to fly the dodo, my record is 450 seconds or something, I would go on for longer but i get bored easily and besides it was foggy and raining so i couldnt see a shitting thing
Anyway do you know, or have you heard of Noops-n-Gleh, a.k.a Noops, he's the world record holder at 49 hours. He wrote a guide which is on IGN - http://faqs.ign.com//articles/371/371318p1.html
he is cool