On Wednesday morning Jonny launched early from Beechmont on an excellent day and beat his previous Australian distance record of 500 km, flying 517 km (321 miles) landing 40 km west of Roma, QLD,  past Muckadilla. He should be back in Beechmont at 2 AM, and be ready to go again on Thursday as it looks like a better day.

While we were in Manilla on Saturday it looked like Monday through Wednesday would be good (and we couldn't see Thursday). Jonny headed back from Manilla right away on Sunday to get ready to go. Wednesday was the first good day.

Two weeks ago I flew with Jonny at Beechmont and it was great because he is a guy who wants to go big and is willing to go early. There are very few guys who are made like this. I've known Jonny since he was eight years old and it is great to have someone around who has this attitude.

On Wednesday we were driving north from Manilla to Brisbane though Toowoomba. It was blue until we got near the small town of Texas were I began to see very scattered and very high cu's, the highest cu's I'd seen in Australia this year. Right away I thought it looked like Jonny might be in the air. I was feeling bad because I couldn't be with him, on launch at least.

There were more and more clouds as we got to Toowoomba, but Jonny would have been far to the west of these by 4 Pm as we entered Toowoomba. By the time we got into Brisbane we had received an SMS from Vicki Cain at Moyes. As Belinda was writing her back, Jonny called as soon as he got into cell phone voice range.

This is a world record for a foot launched (mountain launched)  hang glider (flex or rigid).