LANGKAWI: Two Royal Malaysia Air Force (RMAF) Hawk 208 pilots broke the world record for making the longest duration of flight when they flew for four...
From left: Major Zulkifli ‘Steady’ Mohamad, and Major Fairul ‘Gillette’ Mohd Rustham pose for a photo with Britains’s retired senior Royal Air Force commander Sir Andrew Pulford and RMAF chief General Tan Sri Affendi Buang, on March 27, 2019. — Bernama: Two Royal Malaysia Air Force Hawk 208 pilots broke the world record for making the longest duration of flight when they flew for four hours and 12 minutes in August 2016.
The success of the two RMAF pilots has been recognised by the British multinational defence and aerospace company, BAE Systems, which is participating at the 2019 Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition at the Mahsuri International Exhibition Centre here.“We flew from RMAF Base in Kuantan, Pahang, to carry out observation in the South China Sea and did not expect to be in the aircraft for that long,” he added.
“Normally, we fly for an hour or slightly more, that’s the maximum duration to fly the aircraft. That day, we-we were conducting an operation and we had to exceed the duration,” he added.The recognition from BAE is the second for Fairul and Zulkifli. The first was from RMAF last March 2.
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