On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:09:24 UTC, "tango4"
wrote:

: Records are there to be broken.
:
: Ian
:
: "Ian Johnston" wrote in message
: news:cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-67b2oITd8NFz@localhost...
:
: I really do hope that nobody tries to take the Goodhart record - or at
: least, not without a flight of equal impressiveness.

Well yes, but I think there has to be a sense of proportion. It
depends on whether you see the attraction of a record as being just
the number, or the whole background to the flight.

Doing Lasham to Portmoak in a 30:1 (on a good day) wooden glider,
leaving after lunch, is a hell of a flight. I am sure that lots of
people could outdo it in modern glass, but I think the distance would
have to be much, much further for it to be remotely comparable as an
achievement.

Scale diatance to glide angle, I say - when someone leaves Lasham at
2pm solo, in an ASH25, turns Portmoak and gets back that day, I'll
salute the flight as a worthy successor. Not that it'll take the free
distance record, of course, but you wsee what I mean.

Incidentally, I don't want to put down the guys who did
Lasham-in-the-North to Lasham-in-the-South. But I'm glad the Goodhart
record still stands.

Incidentally, am I right in thinking that a Bocian held one of the
world women's two-seater records before they were abolished? Free
distance, perhaps?

Ian