'It's a record-breaking 20-hour endurance flight from London to Nigeria with a first stop in Kano State inside the smallest and lightest aircraft ever.’’
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While his record attempt is a first, the closest record to his attempt was set by Roberto Bisa ; he set the Guinness World Record for the longest journey by ultralight aircraft, 25,804 km flying from Istrana, Treviso, Italy, to General Rodriguez, Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 1 to 29 August 2015.On 29 March 2017, he completed his “One Man, One Plane” expedition. He landed at Washington Dulles International Airport, the same airport he had departed from in June 2016.
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