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From Potchefstroom in SA  another great flight last week from well known pilot Oscar Goudriaan.Here is the news I received and share with you.

“Oscar declared a 1000 km FAI triangle: Potchefstroom-Dealsville-Pomfret-Potchefstroom, and came close, landing out nears Klerksdorp some 60 km short.  Some 5 m/s climbs in the best part of the day and eventually 4800 m but the last glide looks as if it was dead with a 186 km glide to the landing. It was the second longest flight in Africa this season (so far) after Uys’ 1000 km out & return exactly one month ago.”

Oscar flew the JS1 at a speed of 133 km/h.You can see his flight here;
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=2158036
Another super flight that day, in the ASG 29 by Mannie McLaughlan , a 700 km triangle also from Potchefstroom. Speed: 117 km/h.

Gariep Dam struggled a bit with tough [50 km/h] wind. And from Worchester, Sven Olivier flew in his ASW 27 a nice 749 km with a speed of 121 km/h yesterday.

[The pictures are from my Eskilstuna 2006 cd; Oscar and Mannie.]

 

Nice and longer flights as well from Bitterwasser, Kiripotib and Pokweni in Namibia. More and more pilots have arrived and are just waiting for the day to fly the 1000 km plus! The “between 600 and 800 km flights” were flown only by open class gliders at this stage.

Interesting to see that the German pilots found a place in Botswana to fly from; Ntwetwe a “pan” not too far from the Diamond town Orapa in the middle of the Central District of Botswana. Ntwetwe delivers water from the Mopipi Dam to the diamond mines. Flights in a Nimbus 3DM up to a triangle of 868 km.

Australia is gearing up as well, more about that next time. More news about the latest Gliding International topics in the November/December issue and more to read about what happened last week in
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