5.30: Back home from Amsterdam, but TOO late to see the finishes; they were early today! I noticed that Graham had won by a nose on Mike. He won by a hair’s breadth. EXCITING! In points the difference is more–TWO!
This just in from the SGP … Graham Parker, Mike Young, and Geogio Galetto captured the top three spots in today’s race. Check in later for Ritz’s race blog. Update: @faisgp: Latest news from @Briansgp: It’s currently a dead heat between Parker and Young. Will need a bit more time to come up with today’s…
The high-end hang glider which you probably all know from different publications in Soaring Café now has a younger sister: Dean-Siegler recently introduced Elec’teryx as a low-end electric motor glider.
Speeds around 150 km/h! 3 PM: This is the continuation of blog 1 from today. As you can see on the pictures of the Aussie team, the weather improved (this is looking N), the wind slowly blew the “rubbish” away and all pilots and crews were called to go to the grid. The task…
I admired Bruce yesterday. As you have read in my blog, he flew most of the short, difficult and slow race alone. Here is his story…
HELLO, from Alphen where it is wet, gray and windy—more autumn than spring.
Splendid weather to follow the GP-ACTION on my laptop in my warm study, though I must admit that I miss the action at a field, the interaction with the pilots, crews, organizers and locals and just a shout “Hi Ritz!”
The first four days of May had some spectacularly good soaring weather in Norway. I spent the days at Notodden, where the longest flights in Norway were flown. One of the days four of the five longest flights in the world were flown by us!
GeoRacing is providing the race graphics for the 2014 Grand Prix in Sisteron. If you have an iPhone, iPad, or Android device, you can download a free GeoRacing app to watch the races live.
During the final of the Grand Prix in Sisteron, I try, on request, to shine my Ritz-light daily over what happened. Here is the news from the practice days and day ONE!
For the last few decades the soaring team of Klix has been organizing this competition for all gliding classes. As the WGC takes place this summer at Leszno in Poland, which is near by, a lot of pilots participated in the competition also for training reasons.
