From Fiona Macaskill

My husband, Angus, & I are currently planning to attempt a Guinness World Record for the 'Most airfields visited in 12 hours by fixed-wing aircraft'.

In my ‘former life’ I gained 4 FAI speed world records in paragliding. I gave up paragliding in 2013 and learnt to fly a fixed wing, powered aircraft. Last year, we both gained separate FAI speed world records in fixed-wing aircraft and thought we might now have a go at a Guinness World Record. No one has ever set this 12 hour Guinness World Record so we have decided to  have a go at it and use it as a way of raising money for the Air Ambulance Service at the same time. I've contacted over 120 airfields and gained permission to land from 101 of them. Everyone, without exception, has agreed to waive the landing fee in exchange for us supporting the Air Ambulance Service.

We'll be flying our Monsun, taking off from Sywell at 0730 on either Tuesday 7th or 14th July (weather permitting). We have three alternate routes planned, depending on the weather and actual speed of the flights on the day. We hope to land at somewhere between 60 & 80 airfields. Any more than that will be a real bonus.  

We'll start by flying east through Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex. Then, we'll fly north into Suffolk and Norfolk and back west through Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and Staffordshire before returning east to Sywell, landing before 1930. The total distance will be around 740 nm.

Evidence of a full stop landing and a photo of each airfield has to be supplied to the Guinness World Record adjudicators, along with GPS traces from Sky Demon of each flight along with a video of the entire day. We are very excited about this challenge and also hope to enter the Pooleys 'Dawn to Dusk' competition once we have written up the attempt.

It would be fantastic if pilots would like to donate to this very good cause. This can be done through our Just Giving website:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/fiona-angusmacaskill