Now that the magnitude of his achievement is settling in, I am left wondering about the other contender to break this record, Steve Noujaim. He featured in an article in the latest Flyer and will attempt to break the record London-CT-London later this year in an RV-7.
From the article: "At this power setting, I'm a little slower than the Mew Gull, but I can fly nearly 1000nm further, meaning I can only shave about an hour off the flight time, so it's a proper race."
So if Steves planning allows him to shave one hour off the 1939 world record time, and Chalkie shaved (well, cut actually) some 19 hours off the world record time yesterday, where does that leave Steve? Is he still going? Revising his plans?
The Cape Challenge, flight record bid