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<\/a>David Bradshaw awoke to winter morning Down Under. “Beautiful morning, but will have to de-ice the aircraft before we get going. Start of day 3 of our World record attempt.”<\/p><\/div>\n
According to the organizers, \u201cThe proposed route will include flying across to the Lower Eyre Peninsula and inland back to Port Augusta for flight sectors around the Yorke Peninsula before arriving back in Adelaide, subject to aircraft performance and weather.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 1,150 kilometer (714.6 mile) trek, the flight would \u201cshatter the previous record of 750 km<\/a> (466 miles) flown in September 2020 in [Switzerland and] Germany.\u201d\u00a0 The Europeans needed 11 stops for recharging on their trip, so the 18 planned by the Australians is comparable for the planned distance.<\/p>\n Aviation vlogger Stefan Drury hopped a ride in Eyre\u2019s Pipistel Alpha Electro, the only certified electric flying machine in Australia at this time.\u00a0 That may come as a surprise to regular readers, because three years ago we reported on the flight training operation in Perth<\/a> run by Joshua Portlock and his associates. \u00a0The team at Electro.Aero gave up training flights to concentrate on aircraft chargers, a business that will become an increasingly necessary part of electric flight. In fact, 93-0938, the aircraft featured in our blog entry on Joshua\u2019s flight school, is now flying in Adelaide for Eyre to There.<\/p>\n