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A fact from Norman Surplus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 September 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in June 2019, Northern Irish pilot Norman Surplus became the first person to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro?
Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion
This article would be much improved with a list of starting and finishing location of each leg, with dates and distances. Right now it is a chronological mess, with far too much about permission to cross Russia. David notMD (talk) 23:59, 22 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
I don't think you can mess the chronology up because it is a simple chronology. The trip had two legs. One that started in 2010 and continued on until 2015 on and off due to the Russian airspace problem. The Russian flight permission problem is a central problem for this expedition and it is reported on multiple RS. The lead of the article and the main section of the article report on the Russian flight problems and permission difficulties in a factual manner reflecting the current RS. In fact, the expedition was able to be concluded successfully, after the flight over Russian terrain was concluded. So the Russian factor is a central factor of the endeavour. I haven't found flight logs as yet, so I cannot add flight log details to the article. Dr.K.01:37, 23 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
I think that crediting Surplus and not Ketchell is misleading given that "the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) won’t credit him [Surplus] with the full circumnavigation record." as reported in 2015. Smirkybec (talk) 15:23, 2 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
