12.18; 10 Tuggies are driving out to the field. So it will be even faster today! Great looking skies, no news about a B task, so pilots will go for the nice long A tasks.
AND……Day 3 has started at 12.20 sharp with the first launches!!! The wind sock is hanging down, so nearly no wind during the launches. Buzzards are flying HIGH, 4/8 of Cu’s , so a great day ahead!!!!
Skies today!
Start for 15 m. will open at ; 13.21.
Start for 18 m. will open at ; 13.55.
Start for open will open at; 13.30.
The AG plane continues to do his job starting and landing, with loads of dust behind him, also during the launches. Heard he is spraying the cotton fields. Also the helicopter for water-control leaves during the launches all without any problem at all.
Launch time today for 98 gliders was : 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Everybody is UP in the air! The wind has picked up a bit.
In the overall scores for open class, Oscar Goudriaan on the picture below, is in spot 2 behind French pilot Laurent Aboulin and before French pilot Sylvain Gerbaud. So a Quintus M, a JS1 b, a Quintus and a JS1-c from Bruce Taylor, in spot 5 a JS1-B from Laurens Goudriaan and then the GOOD OLD NIMBUS 4T, from Dutch pilot Peter, before his country mate Francois in the Quintus M and Brad Edwards in JS1B again. On 9 the EB 29 with Michael Sommer and on 11 Pete Harvey with the Antares 23. Very interesting…but as said before , it takes a few days more to really see what happens.
The overall scores in 18 m. class are dominated by Poland at the moment with pilots in spots 1-4 and 5, while the UK is doing a fantastic job with a number 2 and 3. In the first 10 we find seven ASG 29s and three JS-1 B’s.
The overall scores after 2 days in 15 m. class are interesting as well. In spot 1 is German pilot Matthias Sturm in an ASW 27, followed by Sebastian Kawa in the Diana 2. Then David Bauder from Germany in a Ventus 2ax. Susanne and Lisa are in spots 9 and 10 , while Alena is in spot 17.
Talking about 15 m… all pilots are on track! The first to depart was Antti Lehto from Finland at 13.23 and the last was Dave Leonard from the USA at 13.54.
In 18 m. the first to depart was Swedish pilot Ulf Ringertz at 14.00 and Russian pilot Dmitry Timoshenko left at 14.28.
In Open class the first to leave was Danish pilot Poul Kim Larsen at 13.32 and the last one was Dick Butler with the CONCORDIA at 13.57.
On the GAGGLE TALK site:
—Baer Selen the WGC champion from the Netherlands winning here in Uvalde in 1991 says hello to everybody and wishes everybody good luck.
—the USA party is TONIGHT at 8, here in the white big tent. Hope everybody is back in time; don’t expect however anybody back before 7.00 and then they have to be VERY fast as well. First line opened at 13.21, so add 5.30 hours for 644 km. The USA team started the preparations here at 2.30 and we heard already some rock and roll music.
— It’s Brenda’s birthday today, John Seaborn’s gorgeous looking tall slim wife, I mentioned already before. She is the one with the unicycle and here are the pictures from the birthday girl. HAPPY Birthday Brenda!
— Hazel got for her 75th birthday a nice more adventurous present then in the past; she went up for a joy flight, wasn’t scared at all and loved every minute. She had to get used to the turns as in the beginning she thought she was going to fall out of the glider.
