http://www.xcmag.com/2014/08/almond-pastes-it-for-a-new-uk-hang-gliding-record/

Riled by the record-breaking paragliding feats of Mark Watts and Al Wilson the
weekend before, when both pilots broke both the UK’s paragliding and hang
gliding open distance record, hang glider pilot Neville Almond set himself the
task of getting the record back.

Too windy for paragliders the nuttily-named hang glider pilot launched from the
grassy slopes of Milk Hill on Saturday 9 August 2014 and flew a straight-line
distance of 285.37km – completing 307.34km with turnpoints and a long final
glide along the coast.

That beat Mark Watts’s 275.55km national free-flight record of the week before
by just under 10km.

Almond was flying a Class 5 (rigid-wing) hang glider and completed his flight in
six hours.

In comparison, the weekend before Al Wilson flew his 266km on an EN B paraglider
in 6.5 hours, while Mark Watts took the overall paragliding record on his EN D
Enzo 2 in five hours 45 minutes.