2012 World Record Encampment »
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You can find the flights here http://chorlton.homeip.net/spotmap/zapata.html. Choose Yesterday Jonny and Dustin (Thanks to David Wheeler for putting up this page for us).
Dustin and Jonny flew from Zapata in south Texas to just east of Lubbock up in the Texas panhandle, approximately 475 miles (I'll know more accurately later today) with Dustin landing two miles further north than Jonny. Many people around the world followed their record flights on the internet as they happened.
Dustin launched first just before 10 AM (Manfred and Paris launched at 10 AM in 2001). Jonny launched fifteen minutes later. They were in radio contact and sometimes in visual contact with each other throughout the flight. Timothy Ettridge was driving for Jonny and they agreed during the flight to have Tim bring them both back to Zapata (apparently the stayed the night up north).
The winds were 20 to 30 mph out of the south southeast, which is what you want here in Zapata. They turn south at about 200 miles out.
Cloud base started at 2500' AGL (421' ground level at Zapata) and rose to over 10,000' near the end of the day up on the Edwards Plateau (2,500' ground level).
Dustin said that he was climbing at 10,000' at 150 fpm at 8:30 PM. Sunset was 9:01 in Lubbock, and Jonny landed at 9:02. They both carried strobe lights to allow them to land within a half our of sundown.
Dustin states that they both went on final glide wing tip to wing tip and Dustin was able to eek out two extra miles on Jonny. Dustin in a Wills Wing T2C 144 and Jonny in a Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5.
Much more later and I'm sure that they will be writing up their stories soon and I'll link to them. .
Pictures from the day here.
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