Travelling ultra-light: new FAI distance record by Jiří Pruša and Eliška Kudějová
Czech pilots Jiří Pruša and Eliška Kudějová climbed into the Shark 600 on 23 August 2023, slipping off their shoes to further reduce the aircraft’s weight, in addition to the kilos they had already shed through dieting in the run up to the flight. After a thwarted previous attempt in May, every last gram mattered to the pair’s mission: to beat the record of 1036.073km for ‘Distance in a closed circuit without landing’ set by Hungarian pilot Krisztian Dolhai in 2020. They beat his record by a substantial 876km.
