Circumnavigation Record Challenger Challenged

Credit: THOMAS BUTLER/REALISE CREATIVE
A bid for an aviation record has flown into controversy even before engine start. Riccardo Mortara, head of Swiss aircraft charter firm Sonnig, plans to depart Geneva on Mar. 19 in the company’s 30-year-old Sabre 65 aiming to establish a new eastbound circumnavigation speed mark for that aircraft...

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