Around the World in a Spitfire

[Old Farang]

Home - Silver Spitfire (https://www.silverspitfire.com/)

[RANDLOVER]

30 years since Qantas' top-secret record-holding 747 flight from London to Sydney - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-17/30-years-since-qantas-top-secret-london-to-sydney-flight/11413346)

Perhaps they can get Shell to make them some "special" fuel, so that they don't have to make as many fuel stops, as they did for a Qantas 747 years ago.

[3toes]

Not wanting to knock what is a tremendous adventure however is it just me - they do not come even close to the equator staying very much in the northern hemisphere yet is billed as around the world?

[4bee]

No not just you. It is like doing a circuit of the North/South Pole with a hard bank on & keeping the "stick" in sight..[biggrin]

[4bee]

The Silver Spitfire comes to Myanmar | The Myanmar Times (https://www.mmtimes.com/news/silver-spitfire-comes-myanmar.html)

[4bee]

Well, she is nearly back home.



.Iconic Second World War Spitfire prepares to return to the UK after 27,000-mile round-the-world odyssey – The Sun (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10470245/ww2-spitfire-round-the-world-trip/)