Chasing his "amazing dream," 58-year-old Miles Hilton-Barber has set a world record as the first blind person to fly halfway across the world. Hilton-Barber, who lost his eyesight about 20 years ago, had voice-output technology installed on all the navigational devices on his microlight aircraft so he could complete the 13,500-mile flight from London to Sydney.

Hilton-Barber, accompanied by his sighted co-pilot Storm Smith, took off in the two-seater microlight aircraft from Biggin Hill air base in south London on March 7.

During the 59-day journey, Barber and Smith flew across Europe, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia, before touching down at Sydney's Bankstown airport on Monday.

Hilton-Barber says on his blog that he hopes to raise $2 million from the flight, which will be donated to a charity program named "Seeing Is Believing" that works to prevent blindness in the developing world.