Michael Smith is an aviator who became the first person to solo navigate the world in a single-engine flying boat.
[2] Smith took off from Melbourne, Australia in his SeaRey aircraft named Southern Sun in April 2015, intending to retrace the historic 1938 Sydney to London route of the Qantas Empire Flying Boat service.
He crossed the Atlantic Ocean via Greenland, and arrived in New York, landing on the Hudson river.
Then, starting from Alaska, he then began a challenging flight across the north Pacific ocean, crossing via the Aleutian Islands.
The 210-day journey required 480 hours flying, 9,700 litres of fuel and stops at 80 cities along the way.