Although Gordon and Hugh didn’t make their declared goal at Rapid City, South Dakota, they did land safely at Hullett, Wyoming, which is approximately 870 statute miles (1401 km) from their takeoff site at Minden, Nevada.
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Updates on 4 May Payne-Tito Wave Flight
by Bill Elliott •
U.S. Distance Record Attempt Planned for Sunday, May 4th
by Bill Elliott •
On Sunday, May 4, I will be making another distance record attempt along with Hugh Bennett in the Duo Discus sailplane. Our intention is to be towed up by a towplane shortly before sunrise around 0530 PDT from the Minden Tahoe airport NV (KMEV), release and head in the direction of Rapid City, SD (KRAP),…
U.S. National Speed Triangle Record
by Rand Baldwin •
Jackie Payne reports that her husband Jim and his co-pilot Dennis Tito took off at sunrise today, April 22, 2014, after declaring a 521 km speed triangle. Dennis and Tito finally found a wee bit of wave and worked it to 17,500 feet. The link below is for the inReach with altitude. It didn’t “handshake”…
29 March 2014 – Boettger and Bennett Downwind Record Attempt
by Bill Elliott •
Yvonne Loader Awarded FAI Tissandier Diploma
by Bill Elliott •
Video – Discover Mt. Everest with Klaus Ohlmann in a Glider
by Bill Elliott •
Mitch Polinsky’s Annus Mirabilis in Soaring
by Bill Elliott •
We received this report from Mitch Polinsky summarizing a truly remarkable string of record-breaking flights from Utah and Nevada that he made last summer. Bravo to Mitch on his annus mirabilis in soaring!
Simplifying the IGC Sporting Code for Gliding
by Bill Elliott •
At the 2013 IGC Plenary Meeting in Papendal the Sporting Code Committee put forward a discussion paper suggesting that it was time to make a radical revision of the Sporting Code for Gliding. This was accepted and the Committee has now begun the work to achieve this.
Kevin Anderson Sets Seven Tennessee State Soaring Records
by Bill Elliott •
Kevin Anderson got off work Friday, May 24th, around noon, then went out to Knoxville’s Downtown Island Airport (KDKX) to fly his Silent. He got going somewhere around 1:30 PM and did a little out and return up the Clinch ridge to Bluefield, West Virginia and back. Got seven new TN records out of it! Clinch…