Gyrocopter on global journey lands in Iqaluit
Norman Surplus's arrival in Iqaluit on Tuesday was a touchdown in the 20th country of 26 he plans to visit in his Gyrocopter.
"It's like flying a motorbike"' he says. "Or flying outside in the outdoors. There's no cockpit in the aircraft."
The small aircraft has rotor blades like a helicopter, and a propeller like a plane.
"Normally I'm flying low to the ground," he says, "like maybe 800 to 1,000 feet. From that height you can see people from the ground and as you fly past, people look up and you can see people waving and you can wave back."
Surplus, who is from Northern Ireland, began his journey five years ago.
He says it should have only taken about four months, but it took three years to get permission to fly through Russia, leaving him stuck in Japan.
Surplus is a cancer survivor. He was diagnosed with advanced stage bowel cancer at the unusually young age of 40 back in 2003.
He says he's trying to use the trip to raise awareness about bowel cancer.
You can follow him as he flies to Greenland next, by visiting his website, Gyrocopter Goes Global.
