Sorry, someone help me here please: what is the point of this one?
In my simple mind, the aircraft did most of the work, the crew had a chance to either fly a nice plane, or rest down the back of a nice plane; there was probably plenty of quality food on board, so what's so clever?
A lot of fuel wasted for a nice view of McMurdo et al...for the privileged few.
I thought world records were about human endeavour against all odds, about hardship, suffering and pain to be the first, best, fastest etc
Boohoo V12, what a cheerful soul you must be
Records if I'm not mistaken are for the most part made to be broken, using your logic, the fellows who went around the world in a balloon just sat on their arse..while the hot air and jet-streams did all the hard work
What a misery
Congrats to all who participated
