Martin Radcliffe writes: "This clipping and the two before come courtesy of Colin Usher's website.

The 'Here and There' column refers to the Czech Studeny setting an identical .29 speed the month before, so Ray's record wasn't ratified.

Note the national coverage given to Ray's record under 'Record Roundup'.

I was 11yrs old at the time and remember seeing Ray on the BBC TV News that day.

Ray first held the world 10cc record with a Checksfield McCoy 60 Hell Razor in 1950 I believe?

Ray was the person who inspired me to take up speed flying. As an 8yr old I bought a copy of the 1955 Aeromodeller with the Nats report in it. There was a photo of Ray with 2 speed models with the caption 'Ray Gibbs and his two midget speedsters that didn't quite'. I thought: "When I grow up that's the sort of model I want to fly" ! I thought it would be easy...

Ray did more than speed: he flew T/R too, and there was what now seems a bizarre situation at the Criterium in Belgium in the 1950s where Ray had the fastest heat time, but wasn't allowed in the final because he'd only completed one heat: under rules applied at the Criterium that year you had to have completed two heats to be allowed in the final!"