Steve Noujaim left the UK at around 0530 on 31st August in his bid to break the record for Sir Alex Henshaw's and Chalkie Stobbart's race from London to Cape Town and back.  You can live track his trip via his website www.followsteve.co.za.

He is due back at Southend on Friday 3rd September at 1511.

The Ultimate High team were out in force on Father's Day weekend, supporting the Cotswold Air Show.  Greeners performed a spectacular display in the Extra300 showing off its awesome Unlimited and Gyroscopic aerobatic capability.  The ground team manning the UH stand were inundated with young future pilots keen to sit in the Bulldog.

More details on the show can be found at www.airshows.org.uk/2010/airshows/cotswold-kemble-air-show-review.html and www.globalaviationresource.com/reports/2010/kemble2010review.php.

Ultimate High pilot Nick Wakefield will be representing the UK, flying his Pitts Special aircraft at the World Aerobatic Games Championships in Poland in August. 

Competing on the global stage requires not only exceptional flying skills, but also huge personal dedication by each pilot, including significant commitment of time, money and energy to mastering the sport.

"Aerobatics is not just about making shapes in the sky," commented Nick Buckenham, the British Aerobatic Association's Head of Contests and Chief Judge for the Unlimited European Aerobatic Championship. "It is about intellectual strength to make split second decisions in a stressful environment; it is about the physical demands of high G manoeuvring; it is about meticulous planning and execution of a sequence of figures that the pilot may have only seen for the first time a couple of hours before; and then the ability to string together those figures in the correct order in a small cube of air without making any mistakes. This is vitally important if you are to beat the best in the World."

Ultimate High have been given another filming mission, this time for the "5 O'Clock show" on Channel 4.

The tea-time light entertainment programme sent Joyce, their fabulous and intrepid Green Room hostess along for an aerobatic flight in the Extra300.  Hadders had the honour of taking Joyce on her first flying adventure and clocked up an impressive +6 'G' routine including some outstanding torque roll manoeuvres.

The programme airs this week - we have already put in a request for the outtakes, which will be hilarious!!


     Joyce & Hadders                                  Joyce all set to go                      Not only could she walk the 
                                                                                                               walk, she could also fly the
                                                                                                                           plane!

Every now and again we are approached to create something out of the ordinary and we were delighted to be able to help Auto Express with their request to photograph the fabulous new Audi R8 V10 Spyder with our gorgeous Extra300.  The 2 pages of the magazine article can be found here and here. 

Any chance of some Shark's teeth on the front of that car??

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