An Australian father and a pair of son have achieved a Guinness World Record as they took to the sky in a glider and performed within 45 consecutive loops.
Father, David Sketchings said that he wanted to go for a world record as he had come close to his 50th birthday, so he decided to recruit his 16-year-old son, Max, to join a twin seat DG-1000 Glider and according to South Australia, Gawler took to the sky in South Australia, UPI.
“I was trying to set myself as a role model for young people, especially in my family, to show that goal setting, hard work, discipline and really hard to show that target setting, especially in my family, and this is the way you want to achieve, and that is what we did with this record,” the father told the Guinness World Records.
The two scored a record on Australian Day, 26 January and completed 45 consecutive ends and broke the previous record of 24 Indies consecutive Indies since 2001.
The father, who flying helicopters for the South Australian police, said that he hoped to motivate young people to go into aviation, saying that it is “one of the best things you can do in your life”.
