At 05:55 13 January 2009, RRK wrote:

Three hours and twenty-one minutes in that contraption! =A0Makes
today's
pilots who want to do away with the five-hour flight look like wimps.

Well ,. Erlier in the week, the Englishman named Raynham had soared
for 2 hours. His glider, called the Brokker, was cobbled together from
an F2-B Bristol Fighter fuselage and Fokker D-8 wing.
RRK



There is some good film of the 1922 Itford meeting on
youtube... follow the link below.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sd-2RGM0SG8

The world's first recorded gain of height occured in 1909
at Amberley Mount and its 100th anniversary will be
celebrated at the Southdown Gliding Club this year
which is about a mile from where this histoic flight
took place. We plan to try and bungee a glider off the
same spot 100 years on !..

Craig Lowrie, Chairman, Southdown GC

www.sgc1.org