Farnborough Airport was the venue for a triumphant homecoming on Sunday as TAG owner Aziz Ojjeh landed after flying a circumnavigation of the globe.

Mr Ojjeh’s circuit of the world over both North and South Poles has unofficially smashed the previous record, set in 1977 by a Pan Am 747 Jumbo.

The International Aeronautical Federation must first certify the details of the flight - which took 52 hours and 32 minutes - before it is confirmed as a new world record.

Mr Ojjeh took off from Farnborough on Friday at 10.05am, landing back here at 2.37pm on Sunday after refuelling stops in the Youkon Territories, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Punta Arena and Cape Verde.

For more details, see this week's Farnborough News, out on Friday, November 28.