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DVD Weltflug.tv in Africa available now
June 11, 2010

Starting now the DVD Weltflug.tv in Africa is available. More than 60 minutes exciting documentary about the gyrocopter adventure in South Africa, Botsuana, Angola and Namibia in German and English, PAL, 16:9, produced in Full-HD can be ordered now.

Click here for your DVD Weltflug.tv in Africa.


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Worldflight Adventure in the USA accomplished
May 24, 2010

Melanie & Andreas have successfully finished their gyrocopter adventure in the USA. They travelled from Seattle, via San Francisco to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Now they continue their round the world trip to South America. They will travel to Peru, Bolivia, Brasil and Argentina.

For pictures of their US adventure click here.


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Worldflight Adventure in the USA has started
May 09, 2010

Worldflight adventure in the USA has started today. Melanie & Andreas will fly along the West Coast through Washington, Oregon and California. Countless administrative and technical challenges had to be successfully solved during the past weeks before this next chapter of the childhood dream of a round the world tour with gyroplanes has become reality.


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Worldflight Team has arrived back safe in Tauranga, New Zealand
April 07, 2010

After a challenging flight over 5.000 km through New Zealand Melanie & Andreas have arrived back safely in Tauranga from where they had started. This time they had to struggle with severe turbulences and poor visual conditions. They flew from Tauranga to Ardmore and from there southbound to Queenstown and back again. During their flight they had to cross Cook Strait twice and flew 30 km over open sea.

Click here for photos.

Click here for the Gyrate Safari blog.

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Worldflight Team is now flying in New Zealand
March 25, 2010

Worldflight team is currently flying through New Zealand with five gyroplanes of AutoGyro. The team participates at the "New Zealand Air Safari" during which they will fly thousands of kilometers from North to South of the island. Further participants of this fantastic gyroplane adventure are Otmar Birkner, CEO of AutoGyro GmbH, and Tony Unwin, Distributor of AutoGyro in New Zealand.

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Worldflight in Australia is finally airborne
March 10, 2010

Thanks to the support of Tina & Willi Ewig (multiple world record holder for gyroplane flying) and Auto-Gyro the Worldflight-team finally has been airborne in Australia. The team has been accompanied by Peter Coulter with a second gyro to do the air-to-air filmings. Click here for photos of the Worldflight journey via India, Thailand, Singapore to Australia and the Worldflight gyroplane adventure in Australia.

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Worldflight in Australia on the Brink of Failure Due to Red Tape?
February 24, 2010

The worldflight challenge in Australia might end before it even started. Although Melanie and Andreas have recently passed their flight tests for the Australian flight license successfully it is still open whether or not the adventure will happen.

The reason are unsolved issues concerning flying the Australian registered gyroplane.

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AutoGyro and cross-frontier cooperate for Worldflight Adventure
December 18, 2009

The worldmarket leader for gyroplanes AutoGyro and cross-frontier have signed a cooperation agreement. AutoGyro will technically support the Worldflight-Team during their challenges in Australia, New Zealand, USA and South America.

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Worldflight Adventure live on Facebook
December 17, 2009

Melanie and Andreas will feed their latest adventures on Facebook (weltflug.tv). Stay tuned.

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Andreas and Melanie Stütz live at breakfast on German TV Number 1: Das Erste - ARD Morgenmagazin
December 9, 2009

Andreas and Melanie talk about their childhood dreams. How Melanie was limited in travelling in East Germany and how Andreas has dreamt about a Fliewatuut, that can fly like "Flie...", land on water with additional tanks ("...wa") and drive on the road ("...tuut"). Together they realise the two dreams in their round-the-world trip with a gyroplane and by selling the film and book about it they support the work of the child charity fund "terre des hommes".

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Andreas and Melanie Stütz live on BR after achieving the 2nd step of their Worldflight
November 19, 2009

Studio guests: The couple Stütz and the Fliewatüüt in Africa: Melanie and Andeas Stütz have achieved their childhood dreams. They fly with a helicopter similar plane. The adventurer talk live with Renate Herzberg about their exciting voyage.

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Worldflight Adventure excites Earthrounders
November 13, 2009

Earthrounders, the organisation of pilots flying round the world, has become aware of the worldflight.tv adventure, the round-the-world trip with a gyroplane. Although the Round-the-World Trip with a gyroplane does not comply the exact definition of a flight around the world it is definitely the longest journey with a gyroplane on five continents that has ever been done so far. Claude Meunier, Earthrounders.com, wrote in an e-mail to the worldflight.tv team: "Congratulations for your achievements along the Santiago de Compostela Route and congratulations for your project to fly around the World ...the ultimate destination." For more info about Earthrounders click http://www.earthrounders.com.