A UK pilot’s world record gyrocopter flight is in
doubt as Russian authorities have delayed permission to enter their airspace
for 10 months. Cancer survivor and green entrepreneur Norman Surplus has
already traversed 18 countries and broken numerous FAI World Records in his bid
to be the first to circumnavigate the globe in a gyrocopter. If the Russian
Civil Aviation Authorities do not give the green light soon Norman’s chance of
crossing the Bering Sea, the next stage after Russia, will be lost due to the
short Arctic summer.
The
49-year-old adventurer from Larne, Northern Ireland has already flown his tiny,
five metre long craft half way around the world crossing some of the world’s
most hostile environments. He has been forced to wait very patiently in Japan since
late July last year for the Russian
Civil Aviation Authority. The have been ‘processing’ his onward flight
permission - an administration process that is normally supposed to take only 14 days. He needs to make a transit
through the Far Eastern Region of Russia from Vladivostok to reach the Bering
Sea and fly onwards into Alaska.
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