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(By Correne Coetzer) A diabetic and former British Royal Air Force jet pilot, Douglas Cairns, flew from Barrow, Alaska, to the Magnetic and Geographic North Poles in a light twin-engine, piston powered aircraft. After circling the North Pole, flying through all the degrees of longitude in two minutes, Cairns pointed the Beech Baron B58 towards Barneo and landed on ice runway. Cairns has lost a full-time flying career to diabetes in 1989, and aims to show that diabetes need not limit the scope of people's dreams and ambitions.See...
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