Posted on Tuesday 10 April 2012

The Flight 4 Life boys have done it and achieved a new provisional world record.

After starting in Townsville on February 8th, the team has encountered some of the most demanding and challenging weather conditions Australia could throw at them including rain in Queensland, flooding in New South Wales, strong winds in Victoria and opposing winds win Western Australia. Despite the challenges, the team has been able to complete the expedition in record shattering time. The current record of 8,008km held by Ben Jordan in Canada took place over an almost 4 month period of time, the Flight4Life team has been able to complete over 8,500 kilometres in approximately half the time, quite an accomplishment in the weather conditions.

鈥淚t truly has been an epic 8500km journey鈥� said Jennings-Bates 鈥� I think we all feel like we have gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson and it is testimony to such a solid team that we were able to complete such a demanding expedition. Glenn has been forced to fly in conditions that many pilots would not wish to encounter鈥�.

Donations are being accepted for the Royal Flying Doctor Service and Rally4Life, details on the two charities and how to donate can be found at http://www.theflight4life.com.

Well done BOYS from all of us at Parajet.