Brian Milton

Brian is one of the original Microlight Adventurers. He has inspired many fly Microlights and challenge past records. His adventures are incredible and the stories he has are amazing and if you would like to find out more about what he has had to face logo on to www.brian-milton.com

Adventure Expeditions

2003 Published Global Flyer which explains about his adventure around the world in 80 flying days

2002 Published Chasing Ghost which describes his attempt to cross the Atlantic by Microlight

1998 In honour of this achievement, he was awarded the Britannia Trophy one of the world's greatest aviation awards

1990 Brian published a book about his flight from London to Sydney in 1987 called The Dalgerty Flyer

1988 Record Breaking Round the World Flight in 80 Flying Days. Brian won various awards for this magnificent achievement

1987 Became the first man to fly from London to Sydney in a Microlight. For 10 years he held the record for the longest, fastest Microlight flight in history.

1978 While testing a single engine powered Skyhook Silhouette, managed to survive a fall of 250 feet. The flight was being filmed by BBC and consequently the fall is caught on film

1969 Drove a 1937 Austin 7 Ruby across the Sahara Desert and down through the Congo

1964 Traveled for 9 weeks across America

England to Australia Microlight Flight 1987/1988

Brian's 1987/8 flight in an under-powered (447cc 2-stroke Rotax engine) CFM Shadow was for ten years the longest, fastest microlight flight in the world, but a lot happened on it.

He left Docklands in London on December 2, 1987, and a week later, after struggling against strong headwinds and thick cloud, was wrecked on the Greek island of Kythira, flipped upside down by crosswinds. Brian’s mechanic Mike Atkinson, who had a first-class ticket to Australia to allow numerous stops, turned up a day later to glue it back together.

Brian lost 5 days before flying on. He lost a day in Jordan, and struggled across the Saudi Desert plagued by poor fuel, but lost no days. A fuel blockage put him into the Persian Gulf 32 miles from shore on Christmas Day, in the middle of the Iran/Iraq war, but Mike and Brian rescued the aircraft after 6 hours in the sea.

He lost another 5 days repairing it and replacing instruments and engine in the Emirates Air hangar in Abu Dhabi. Brian also lost a day crossing to Pakistan because of rainstorms, and two days when a broken earthing wire put him down on a paddy field in Malaysia. But from Karachi onwards, despite those problems, he matched Ross Smith day for day, and took 36 flying days to get to Darwin.