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Correct. On the 10th May 1959 Nick Goodhart got airborne from Lasham in A Slingsby Skylark 3 with a declared target of Portmoak on the banks Of Loch Leven. A Distance of 579.36km which was covered at a speed of 90.7kmh. The speed still stands as a UK Open 500km goal record and the distance as a 20m class record.
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Incidentally, there is an account in Peter Scott's autobiography, The eye of the wind, of his flight in the same competition where he made it to the Scottish boarders only to find that he had been beaten by Nick.
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Just as only one lake in The Lake District. Thanks, have flown past Portmoak and Balado Bridge many times at low level, without refuel - ho ho, and have a distant memory of the Goodhart escapade.
OH I fear.
OH I fear.
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Time to contribute something methinks....
Well done that man! It is indeed Leyburn, and the circled aircraft are B-24's.