When Alex Henshaw set the record back in 1939 in in a single engined and especially modified Percival Mew Gull Racing Aircraft G AEXF: He flew London - Cape Town - London round trip in Four days, 10 hours and 16 minutes.
No one then could have predicted it would be 70 years before that record would be broken.
Today the 11th May 2009 Charles 'Chalkie' Stobbart completed the same trip in a Home-build Osprey GP4 aircraft in Three Days 15 Hours and 17 Minutes
See the Henshaw Challenge Web Site
A tremendous achievement, but one the Mainstream Media in the UK has ignored, instead considering the breakup of a reality show couple more important.
Whilst Alex Henshaw flew from Gravesend Airport to Cape Town and then back to Gravesend, Chalkie Stobbart departed Cape Town and arrived at Southend and then Back to Cape Town.
Obviously Chalkie benefited from the technical advances in Navigation Technology, but this should take nothing away from a shining example of human endeavour and endurance.
To Chalkie Stobbart:
Well done sir!
No one then could have predicted it would be 70 years before that record would be broken.
Today the 11th May 2009 Charles 'Chalkie' Stobbart completed the same trip in a Home-build Osprey GP4 aircraft in Three Days 15 Hours and 17 Minutes
See the Henshaw Challenge Web Site
A tremendous achievement, but one the Mainstream Media in the UK has ignored, instead considering the breakup of a reality show couple more important.
Whilst Alex Henshaw flew from Gravesend Airport to Cape Town and then back to Gravesend, Chalkie Stobbart departed Cape Town and arrived at Southend and then Back to Cape Town.
Obviously Chalkie benefited from the technical advances in Navigation Technology, but this should take nothing away from a shining example of human endeavour and endurance.
To Chalkie Stobbart:
Well done sir!
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