With a time of six days and 7½ hours, two Canadian pilots have broken the world record for an around-the-globe flight by a single-engine plane. Don Muir, 26, and André Daemon, 22, shaved more than 28 hours off the previous record. A crowd at Montreal's Dorval airport cheers as their Cessna 210 touches down and camera operators jostle to take the first photograph of the triumphant team in this CBC Television report.

• Don Muir and André Daemon completed their journey in their plane — The Wings of Life — in six days, seven hours, 25 minutes and 47 seconds. They travelled 36,500 kilometres.
• Muir, a bush pilot from Sioux Lookout, Ont., and Daemon, a flight instructor from Montreal, carried several good luck charms with them on their historic journey. Each pilot wore a St. Christopher medal (the patron saint of safe travel). They also packed a Bible in their survival kit and fixed a small statue of Snoopy — the Red Baron — above their radio.

• By the time they completed their flight, Muir and Daemon had raised $150,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.
• "We never worried about not making it. The wind was in our favour and flying was incredibly smooth," Daemon told the Toronto Star after the flight. (Aug. 8, 1982)

• Muir and Daemon made pit stops in St. John's; Shannon, Ireland; Naples, Italy; Cairo; Bahrain; Bombay; Madras; Kuala Lumpur; Manila; Guam; Majuro; Honolulu; San Francisco; Denver and Chicago.
• On their journey, the pilots subsisted on a diet of sandwiches, peanut butter, cookies, V-8 juice, apple juice and spring water.

• The previous record was set by Seattle lawyer Robert Muckleston in 1978.
• As of June 2006, Muir and Daemon's record still stands as authenticated by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.

Medium: Television
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: Aug. 7, 1982
Host: Peter Mansbridge, Reporter: Jim Sunstrum
Guest(s): Don Muir
Duration: 2:04