Early yesterday morning, N1US, a stock AgustaWestland A109 Grand Helicopter piloted by Scott Kasprowicz and Steve Sheik, successfully completed a round-the-world flight, touching down in New York having circumnavigated the globe in exactly 11 days, 7 hours, and 3 minutes. This feat smashed the previous record time for a helicopter flight around the world. During the flight, N1US flew over 20,000 nautical miles, and eclipsed the previous record of just under 17 days by more than 143 hours — almost 6 full days. In preparation for the N1US Grand Adventure flight, Latitude’s SkyNode S200-021 satellite voice and tracking equipment and the LWS Sentinel data management system on-board N1US had been sanctioned by the National Aeronautic Association to authenticate the AFF (automatic flight-following) data transmitted during the flight from N1US to the National Aeronautic Association flight-monitoring desk and to the N1US ground logistics team at the Grand Adventure Coordination Center. For further details on this feat, select the Grand Adventure homepage graphic below... For details on the Latitude S200-021, select the product graphic above...