Nice to see he just did it as opposed to running a massive media campaign.
Totally agree. Some guy decides to jump in a small flying boat and fly to England at 80 knots - no biggie. The fact that when in England it was too hard to freight the thing home and he just decided to continue on to the US, Canada, the arctic circle, Japan and then back to Australia make this flight just about equal to anything that has been achieved since Orville and Wilbur took to the skies. Sure, it has all been done before in bigger faster things but in a Searey at 80 is pretty special