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Fast pilots may set speed records - pioneering pilots create history…

First Gyro is a remarkable true story of one man’s nine-year courageous journey to live ‘beyond cancer’ and achieve the first circumnavigation of the world in a gyroplane. Bravely flying solo and unsupported into the unknown, Norman Surplus takes readers on a wild, 27,000 mile edge-of-the-seat adventure across 32 countries – incredibly, he encounters as much high drama on the ground as in the air. Almost a century in waiting, this extraordinarily unique historic challenge has marked the end of an era… The gyroplane was the last remaining aircraft type to circle the globe.

FIRST GYRO is now available worldwide in paperback and can be ordered via the button below.

Show me the photos! There are deliberately no printed pictures in this book, as readers will be able to enjoy hundreds of images, maps, and video clips on the dedicated Chapter gallery section of this website created to accompany the written story.

To coincide with the book’s general release, the firstgyro.net website will be expanded to have a free-to-view online gallery; laid out with the same structure as the book chapters, to allow readers an enhanced background insight into the whole adventure as it unfolds, via their phone or other media device. Be sure to check out the pictures, chapter by chapter, to enrich and inform your reading experience!

(UPDATE - As many of you will be aware, Norman passed away from a heart attack in April, but had luckily completed his book a couple of days prior. He was very excited to be able to include a photo gallery as a companion piece to his story, showing a selection of the photos he took on his adventure. Unfortunately due to the circumstances he was only able to complete a small section of the gallery before his death, however we have been hard at work locating his photos and completing, to the best of our knowledge, the gallery that we think he had envisioned.

Thank you, The surplus Family

Below are some sample photos taken from various chapters.

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