World record

Ron Bower and John Williams, flying a Bell 430, have set a round-the-world helicopter speed record - and the first for a westbound flight - of just over 17 days, breaking the existing record by seven days. The plan was to complete the flight from the UK's Fairoaks Airport in ...

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