Three Journeys Round
Celebration of Round the World
18 June - 25 September 2024
Andre de Freitas aims to make the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter by a Brazilian general aviation pilot.
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The flight will be co-ordinated by both the Brazil and Great Britain National Airsport Control bodies representing Andre and Peter Wilson and conducted under FAI Sporting Code. The pair are planning to take Peter Wilson’s existing antipodal record by circumnavigation in about 100 days.
The route takes them through the following 35 countries (some entered twice), flying about 31,000 nautical miles in 100 days: Brazil (2), French Guiana, Guyana, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Sint Maarten, Puerto Rico, Turks & Caicos, Bahamas, USA (2), Canada (2), Greenland, Iceland, Faro Islands, UK, Luxembourg, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mexico, EL Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
The antipodes will be Bichura (UIUA), Russia followed by El Calafate (SWAC), Argentina. The start/ finish point of the trip will be at the closest controlled airport to the small one that bears the name of Andre’s grandfather, a famous Federal Deputy in his time in Santa Catarina, namely Diomicio Freitas (SSIM)
For Peter this route combines the beauty of his previous LATAM 2018/19 and RTW 2017 routes. However, by taking the northerly route through Europe, Turkey, and entering Russia from the Stans the pilots will see the beauty of this region including stunning Lake Baikal and awesome Kamchatka while avoiding the monsoonal weather of the southerly route.
André de Freitas, Brazilian
Sportsman, Mount Everest summiteer, traveller, adventurer and businessman
And did you know that we are also celebrating
the centennial of the very first circumnavigation in 1924