After a long day of soaring the waves between Nevada and Wyoming, Gordon and Hugh landed the Duo Discus at the Casper Natrona International Airport near Casper, Wyoming.
At sunrise on 17 January, we are planning on launching in the Duo Discus glider from Minden at sunrise and aiming for Rapid City, SD as our goal, a distance of over 933 miles. Below is a link to the map with our position updates every 5 minutes.
Hungarian pilot Laszlo Hegedus has been tearing up the record book in Europe this year. His latest record is summarized in the FAI communiqué copied below. The Soaring Café staff join the FAI in congratulating Laszlo on his exceptional flight.
On August 3rd, the FAI received the following Class D (Gliders) European record claims. The Soaring Café congratulates pilots Guy Bechtold of Luxemburg and Laszlo Hegedus of Hungary on their outstanding flights!
From Gorgon Boettger: We’ll be making another distance record attempt in the wave going downwind Thursday, May 3rd, launching at 0530L. Our goal is to get somewhere east of the Rockies. Rapid City, South Dakota would be fantastic. To follow our progress, click on the link below (altitudes will not be shown). Once again, the…
Source—OLC Magazine: On March 11, 2012, Robert Spielman of Air Sailing Nevada, launched from the Minden-Tahoe Airport in a SparrowHawk and made the longest flight in the OLC world competition for that day. Robert logged 898.8 km in six legs for 1105 points and averaged 133.6 kph. Congratulations, Robert! At this writing, Robert is 2nd in the U.S. OLC competition, only 24 points behind the leader, Robert Templin of Aero Club Albatross.
[This just in from Linwood Stevenson, SSA State Recordkeeper for Tennessee with and updated section by Sarah’s excellent co-pilot, Dianna Fleming] Sarah Kelly-Arnold, of Chilhowee Gliderport fame, had an amazing flight on Thursday, March 24th. Sarah and Dianna Fleming appear to have set 12 new records in the Feminine Category, Open Multiplace Glider for Tennessee,…
