Synopse
After two years of planning, Fedor took off from Northam Airfield in Western Australia on 12 July 2016. He then flew solo around the world for 11 days 4 hours and 20 minutes before landing back almost exactly where he started. In a quirk of meteorology that Konyukhov’s team called a “billion-to-one chance”, after traveling 33,521.4km around the Earth Konyukhov literally flew over his original take-off field before landing safely back in Western Australia a few hours later. Konyukohov survived freezing temperatures, faulty oxygen cylinders, and thunderstorms during the flight, which was made in a specially built balloon that was 10-times bigger than a standard balloon. He slept little, in micro-sleeps for mere minutes or even seconds, and lost 11kg during the voyage.