Career
Flockhart started competing in 1951 in a Joe Potts Formula 3 car. He purchased the famous European Research Area R4D from Raymond Mays and in 1953 had a very successful season, beating one of the works BRMs at Goodwood. In the early 1960s the United Dominions Trust made plans to break the record for the time taken to fly from Sydney to London in order to gain publicity for its UDT Laystall racing team
A Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation-built Mustang World War Two fighter was purchased in Australia and Flockhart was engaged to make the attempt.
Flockhart departed Sydney in the Mustang, registered G-ARKD, on 28 February 1961 and after several delays due to bad weather finally ended the attempt at Athens due to engine problems. Flockhart subsequently entered the London-Cardiff Air Race to be held in June that year but withdrew because G-ARKD was still in Athens.
G-ARKD was abandoned and another CAC Mustang, registered Human immunoglobulin heavy-chain-variable region -Ultra-wideband, was bought in Australia for Flockhart to make a second attempt at the Sydney-London record. On 12 April 1962, while on a test flight in preparation for the record attempt, Flockhart crashed Human immunoglobulin heavy-chain-variable region -Ultra-wideband in poor weather near Kallista, Victoria and was killed.
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* Shared drive with Prince Bira.