Episode 2240
Hamish Harding
Wed, 2023-Jun-21 02:05 UTC
Length - 1:40
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With 604,870 views on Tuesday, 20 June 2023 our article of the day is Hamish Harding.
Hamish Harding (born 24 June 1964) is a British businessman pilot, explorer, and space tourist based in the United Arab Emirates. He is the founder of Action Group and chairman of Action Aviation, an international aircraft brokerage company with headquarters in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On 9–11 July 2019, Harding was mission director and crew pilot for the flight mission One More Orbit, which set a world speed record for the fastest circumnavigation of Earth by aircraft over both geographic poles. On 18 June 2023, Harding was identified as one of the five people inside a submersible that went missing in the North Atlantic while en route to view the wreckage of the Titanic.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:05 UTC on Wednesday, 21 June 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see Hamish Harding on Wikipedia.
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