The One More Orbit Team Successfully Complete Their Round-The-World Flight
By Isabella Meneses
July 12, 2019
Woo hoo!!!
They did it!
The team from the "One More Orbit" successfully completed their flight and and broke a pair of records for their round-the-world airplane flight over the North and South poles.
Does the name sound familiar to you?
It may be because the flight crew named their flight "One More Orbit" to pay homage to the 50th anniversary of humanity's first moon landing.
The flight took off in a Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER aircraft and spent 46 hours, 39 minutes, and 38 seconds completing their mission. They averaged 535 mph!!
WOW!
That's amazing.
Congrats Action Aviation Chairman Hamish Harding and Astronaut Terry Virts!
For more information on the One More Flight, check our their website here.
Want to see more pictures from the record-breaking flight? You can check out them on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube or Twitter.
The #OneMoreOrbit team were on board, consisting of #NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Action Aviation Chairman Hamish Harding and Qatar Executive pilots Jacob Obe Bech, Jeremy Ascough and Yevgen Vasylenko, engineer Benjamin Reuger and cabin crew member Magdalena Starowicz. #QEwithOMO pic.twitter.com/S23y9Vp5kC
— Qatar Airways (@qatarairways) July 11, 2019
Will #futuregeneration beat my record? #OneMoreOrbit pic.twitter.com/8em2y5ewOl
— Hamish Harding (@ActionAviation0) July 11, 2019
Check out Mo Kelly's conversation with Action Aviation Chairman Hamish Harding and Astronaut Terry Virts to see how their mission was going!