What is Johan Nurmi famous for?

Answer 1

Johan Nurmi, born in Eskilstuna, Sweden, in 1951, is the 4 time US helicopter Speed Champion, and 2 World Speed Records, flying Coast to Coast, and back, in 3 different Helicopter types. The R22, The R44 and the OH-58 helicopter. He is doing the helicopter racing to feed starving children in the US and the world. The organization is called ... thechristianfoundationforstarvingchildren.com Johan Nurmis biggest goal is to break Kasprowich's Around The World Speed Record, which is 15 days and 6 hours, in a Agusta Westland helicopter 109. Johan Nurmi, owns and operates his own Helicopter Flight School, called USA ACADEMY OF AVIATION at French Valley Airport, in Murrieta, Ca. He has more than 10.000 helicopter flying hours, and educates the next gen helicopter pilots, by taking them up in the foothills of Palomar mountain, where he teaches them all kinds of emergency landing techniques, called autorotations. Johan Nurmi's hobbies are helicopter flying, and he is married to his wife Monica Bergenstrom, also from Sweden. They met at a mountain hotel, where Monica was working in the reception. They hanged out for ten years, and then they married in Malibu, California. They have been married for twenty five years. Monica is also a Helicopter Flight Instructor with more than 9000 total hours. She is the President and owner of USA ACADEMY OF AVIATION, together with her husband Johan Nurmi. Johan Nurmi has been in KUSI TV NEWS several times, and Channel 7 news in LA, plus in numerous helicopter flight magazines, like Rotor & Wing, Rotor, Pacific Flyer, Press EnterPrize, Pecos News, kFROG, YouTube, Guinnes Book Of World Records, KZSW TV NEWS, Robinson News Letter, Eskilstuna Kuriren and in a German Flight Magazine called FLUEGREVUE, among many other.