[3] The fuselage was a semi-monocoque, elliptical in cross section and built around spruce frames with a plywood skin.

The cockpit was immediately ahead of the pylon and wing leading edge, enclosed with a perspex canopy.

[2] The high point of the Skylark 3's competitive career was at the 1960 World Gliding Championships, held at Cologne in Germany, where it was flown by the Swedish-Argentinian Rolf Hossinger into first place.

The Skylark 3 still holds the British gliding record for a 'declared 500 km goal' which was set by Nick Goodhart on 11 May 1959 when he flew 360 miles from Lasham in England to Portmoak in Scotland.

Goodhart launched from Lasham at 13:03 and landed at Portmoak at 19:30 hours, after an epic flight in which he had successively used: hill-lift, thermal-lift and wave, cloud climbs to 18,000 ft inside a cumulonimbus cloud, and a further climb to 15,500 ft inside cumulus.

[4] This is still the UK goal-distance-record for gliders of wingspan not greater than 20 metres; and the speed record for a 500 km goal flight (2010) which is remarkable given the vastly improved performance of modern fibreglass gliders, as compared to the relatively low performance of the wood and fabric Skylark 3.