SYDNEY: A blind British pilot is to take off this
weekend in a bid to fly his microlight plane to
Australia, news reports said on Saturday.
Miles Hilton-Barber, 55, will be sitting alongside
sighted pilot Storm Smith in his attempt to become the
first blind pilot to fly from London to Sydney,
a distance of 21,700 km.
Hilton-Barber, who has climbed Africa's Mount
Kilimanjaro and run a marathon in Russia, told
Australia's ABC Radio that he expected the trip to
take 55
days.
The pair are following a route made famous in the 1919
air race from London to Sydney and will fly over the
Middle East, Pakistan, India, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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