Zephyr

You heard it here first!!! Well we thought you might hear something soon. The Zephyr has smashed its previous record and at this time been in the air for 7 days and 2 hours and 12 minutes. The craft took off at 1440 BST (0640) local time from the US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona last Friday, the 9th of July. This means that on the first public day at Farnborough 2010, next Friday the craft will have been in the air for two weeks.

Congratulations to the team from Boscombe Down, lets hope they found some room for some real ale in the luggage that went over with them.