Название: Flying from My Mind: Innovative and Record-breaking Microlight and Aircraft Designs
Автор: David G. Cook
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844155889
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 2,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
This fascinating story begins in 1973 when David Cook built a glider in an attempt to win the Selsey Birdman Rally – an annual event where all types of creations are launched from the end of Bognor Pier. Between 1975 and 1977 he won every National and International hang gliding competition entered and then in 1977 he designed and built a power unit for his glider. In 1978 he became the first and lowest-powered microlight to cross the English Channel.
His successes in this venture led to sponsorship from Duckhams Oil and there followed a period of demonstration flights at major air shows. In 1982 he designed a microlight called Shadow and in 1983 it took the FIA world speed and distance records for the class. In 1992 he took the aircraft to 23,600ft to claim the world altitude record for the class, beaten later by himself in a newly designed Streak to 27,150 ft.