Time clocked overhead the ATC Control Tower was 1553:54z
Very well done Steve!

From all in Southend ATC team.

On the Avcom thread AvCom - Your Aviation Community seems there is an FAI law that requires a record to be broken by at least 1%, so the northbound record might still stand. We will have to wait for the official results :{

Chuck

Quick, unconfirmed, update.

It's possible that for a record to be beaten, it has to be beaten by at least 1%.

So:

London-CT - new world record, Steve Noujaim :ok:
London-CT-London, new world record, Steve Noujaim :D:ok::D:ok:
CT-London - we'll have to wait a bit to see :ooh:

If it isn't to be, maybe he could try again next month? :) Maybe he could set of together with Tony Smith...

Still, an awesome performance. I hope he gets the record :ok: It looks like a near perfect flight and I would love to read a trip report. And thanks to the people who wrote the excellent tracking software.

The World Record Holder - supported by a great team.

Twy 'B' at Southend having vacated Rwy 06
(thanks to ATC for the transport!)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...-XF-pprune.jpg

Wow. Down to the wire....That actually shows how hard it is to achieve the record.

I'm sure after a pint or two Steve will not be seen for hours and hours...sleep, it does a body good.

Good One Nouj
 

Bloody good show Nouj, what next?:ok::ok::ok:


OGF

Trip report now up on this website:

Cape Challenge Blog

It makes interesting reading to those who think the flying part is easy...

Congrats to Steve Noujaim on setting new records for London-CT and London-CT-London. :ok:

I don't know the technicalities of the rules but I hope Chalkie Stobbart retains the CT-London record.


FL

Not that I mind either way, but given that he did it one minute faster, why should it not count as breaking the record? Does this rule also apply to things like the 100m sprint, etc?

Tony Smith has announced he will depart for Cape Town on October the 19th. Satellite tracking and news updates will be available.

The Cape Run 2010 - Latest News

Rather disappointing to see them asking people not to come and see him return to Southend; I've flown over for both Chalkie and Steve's arrivals, and would intend to complete the "hat-trick", so to speak!

Why such a different attitude; do they not want people supporting?

So no repeat of the scenes at Le Bourget in 1927, then........!!!!

Planemike

Hi guys,

The theory is that Tony will be totally exhausted and rather than appear nonchalent or ungrateful for the support he'd rather keep things low key with the minimum of fuss regardless of the outcome of the flight.

That said, Katamarino, he can't really stop you visiting Southend can he - we'd hate you not to get your hat-trick?! And you can always pop over to Breighton...

Davski
The Cape Run

The actual flight is trivial, with a GPS.
 

IO540 is certainly correct to point out that the CT flight is not as difficult and dangerous as it was seventy years ago for a small SEP...but 'Trivial'...I think not. Going as SLF maybe would.
Sure the Nav & Coms now are beyond the wildest dreams of Alex' Henshaw is '39. Nor did he have EFIS or an autopilot, or even decent lit runways to alight upon.

Alex' didn't have to worry much about CAS, and actually, the Mew was very fast, but as the oil consumption was much higher, it was almost as big an issue for him as fuel.

Despite the many obvious advantages that the modern contenders clearly have over Alex' in '39, it's still a fantastic achievement and a great bit of publicity for GA in these straitened times.... Good for them, and I'll be following Tony Smiths attempt to 'walk the walk' with great interest. Good luck to him....! :ok:

We'll be watching from here as well!

Safe flights, Sam.