Many years ago I did an around the world flight in an RAF Comet and some of the students in the school where I taught sponsored the flight and we raised almost £200 for the baby ward at the local hospital. My memory is not so good these days but I think it took 53 hours not non-stop but I had to promise to end each leg with a landing somewhere in other words I was n’t allowed to save in mid flight.
My wife had told her colleagues at work what I was upto and on the day I landed back in the UK I had my wife and several of her colleagues stood behind me complete with a bottle of champagne to celebrate. Just a tad over the top but great fun I never repeated the round the world again the once was enough.
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