Father and son perform most loops in an airborne glider

Good luck, mate

Yep, you too. On Australia Day 2026, here at Gawler Airfield, South Australia

we went up myself and my son Max and we conducted a attempt at the Guinness World Record

One. Our teamwork was really important because of the safety. Dad had his job of doing the flying and I had my roles of watching the airspace

and watching the attitude. So we're sitting in a two-seat DG-1000, G-G-1,000

lighter. And on this case, it was myself in the back and max in the front. We glide around at a

standard 60 or 70 knots. We point the nose down until we accelerate up to about 100 knots

And then we gradually pull back on the stick, keeping the wings level. So the wings go back

The aircraft comes up and over like that. As we come up, the aircraft slows down, right back to

about 45 or 50 knots. Then we're upside down and gathers speed again, points it back to the ground

And we accelerate back up to 100 knots, where again we pull the same stick back and same in

over. Each loop we're doing about two and a half to three and a half cheese

And we'll simply repeat that over and over again. I guess through my whole life I been privileged to do a whole heap of different things both in my work and outside of work that I really push myself to the limits As a family we climbed the highest mountain in each state and territory in Australia

and it really taught us how to push yourself to limits and achieve stuff by setting goals

working hard and doing what you needed to achieve them. My aim, probably share my journey

the aviation is one of the best things that you can do in your life. One more than that will be it, Dad

844. What's the height to get back to the airfield? 2,000. Great, levelling out

Leveling out. Good job, Max. Good job, Dad. That's a Guinnessol records for both our names

Yes, indeed, man. It's your aircraft to take us into the landing, mate. Roger

I did the last part of the flight after we've done the loops. There were probably about 40 or 50 people watching, so

there was a lot of pressure and I pulled the lighter up next to everyone and got out and then

all very exciting. Good job mate so very proud of you. We completed a Guinness World

record for the most consecutive loops in a glider. The record before us was 24 loops and we were

lucky enough to complete 45 loops that day. We'd worked so hard and we put so much into it

and it came off like clockwork and we are very very excited