Young UK pilots, Theo Warden and Lawrie Noctor have set a new British Tandem declared goal record after a 71 km flight.<\/p>\n
Lawrie shares his experience:<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth myself and Theo have been talking about breaking the tandem declared record for some time now, however it was until last month Theo got his tandem rating. On Saturday night, we agreed the weather looked good enough to give it a go and decided Theo would be first to pilot and I would do the next good day out on the tandem.<\/p>\n
After setting a 66km goal that Richard had given us (thanks) we decided to change it slightly and increased it to 71km to a small village called Spaldington just before getting airborne. We ended up taking off from Stanage edge late at around 1pm with it blowing around 18-27kmh and completely blue with just a few high cumulus down wind.<\/p>\n
After two small beats of the sun baked rocks we were climbing with a small gaggle and on our way. First glide was really sinky and after only 8km glide we both thought we were going to be on the deck. The initial climb out was around 3m\/s so we were looking for something …read more<\/a> <\/p>\n