Dustin and Jonny smash the World Record for longest hang gliding
flight

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.