Richard Meredith-Hardy

Richard Meredith-Hardy is a British extreme microlight pilot. He has been flying microlights since 1984, was twice World Microlight Champion and has held a variety of speed records.^[1]

Notable voyages by Meredith-Hardy include:

London to Harare, Zimbabwe (12,500 miles).^[2]
The first flight over Mount Everest in a microlight craft,^[3] at the same time towing a hang-glider flown by Angelo d'Arrigo.
The longest microlight voyage in the world: 13,000 miles from London to Sydney with blind hang-glider pilot Miles Hilton-Barber.^[4]

References

^ "History of Records: Richard MEREDITH-HARDY (GBR)". Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. http://records.fai.org/data?p=310. Retrieved 2010-03-19.
^ "Historic ultralight flight completed". Reading Eagle, Pennsylvania: p. 1. April 26, 1986. http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=8QEyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=D6cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3687,3724205&dq=richard+meredith-hardy&hl=en.
^ "Man flies microlight over Everest". BBC News Online. May 24, 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/3743555.stm.
^ Bernard Lagan (May 1, 2007). "My 13,000 miles flying blind in a microlight". The Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1728903.ece?print=yes&randnum=1151003209000.

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