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British family set new world record for longest solar-powered flight around the Med
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
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A family of adventurers who spent their summer holiday flying around the Mediterranean - including swimming across shark infested waters - have set a new world record for the longest solar-powered flight by paramotor.
The Cardozo family, from Mere, in Wiltshire, along with a dedicated group of friends, travelled 1,242 miles from Monte Carlo to Morocco in an electric paramotor powered by the sun.
The 15-day trip, travelling through France and Spain, included a crossing above the shark-infested waters of the Straits of Gibraltar.
Up, up and away: The Cordozo family set a new solar-powered flight record
Into the blue: The paramotor fliers above the Mediterranean
The team were led by Gilo Cardozo, his brothers Cosmo and Damian, along with Damian's 17-year-old daughter Tilly and five other pilots, while the rest of their families were following on the ground.
Gilo, an aviation engineer and managing director of Parajet, managed the flight technology of Bear Grylls's paramotoring expedition into the Venezuelan jungle for Channel Four's Lost World.
Free as a bird: The intrepid travellers hovered above the coastlines of France and Spain on their 1,242-m
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Brian Crighton: the Rotary Man’s story
Mention Norton race bikes of the late 80s, mutter the words ‘rotary engines’, or even the new 95-grand Crighton CR700W track bike, and one name, one man stands out as the connection; Brian Crighton, the 74-year-old British engineer whose lifetime has been dedicated to developing motorcycle engines of all shapes and sizes.
But did you know that Mr Crighton was three-times British 50cc champion in the mid-70s? In those days his feverish addiction to 4-stroke engines but a limited budget resulted in him fettling road bikes to compete on instead of race bikes. Those engineering foundations led to the rotary-engineed Norton race bikes of the late 80s/early 90s, and later, the fascinating modern-day CR700W.
But did this softly spoken genius study engineering? “Not really no, it was self-taught. I could never afford a proper racing bike, so I had to have a road bike and modify it and I ended up beating the proper bikes! I did an awful lot of work with 4-strokes and I really went into it deeply to fully understand it, so I was into engines,” he told BikeSocial in a recent interview. The very same day on which the fruits of his last five years was being handed over to me, at Cadwell Park during a Bennetts Track Day.
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