Photo by Guido Müller There was a low cloud base in the Swiss Alps near Lucerne, but good weather to take some pictures.
Yearly Archives: 2014
2 and 1/2 hours in the air
by Bill Elliott •
2014 Mifflin, Region 2–Photos by Maria
by Bill Elliott •
Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race – Day 3
by Bill Elliott •
Tullahoma Tenn GTA Race, Day 2
by Bill Elliott •
Most days when the weather doesn’t work out as forecast, it is because something bad happened – high overcast, storms popping up, spread-out/overdevelopment – you know the list. Today, however, we got what CD Francois Pin (PF) referred to as ‘the other side of the coin. The forecast was for blue all day – we…
Being on the highest spot, that’s what it is all about on the end of a WGC!
by Bill Elliott •
Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race
by Bill Elliott •
I’m sitting in my Micro-Castle here at the Tullahoma GTA (Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama) race site, on Saturday July 5, waiting for my brain to wake up and smell the coffee. Tullahoma regional airport (KTHA) is a great soaring site, with lots of ramp space for assembling gliders, huge runways with at least two separate grass runways, and a…
WORLD champions ; Bert jr. Schmelzer, Eric Bernard and the JONES brothers!
by Bill Elliott •
Latest on 33d WGC in Finland!Finally the REAL Finnish weather!
by Bill Elliott •
Latest on 33d WGC in Finland ! What if there were no sauna’s in Rayskala!?
by Bill Elliott •
“Day cancelled for all classes, sauna recommended for anti-freeze”. “Eat. Sleep. Grid. Repeat..” ” A nap is recommended” Some quotes from the 33d WGC in Finland,where it seems they have a record-cold-summer,the coldest since 50 years, just when the soaring world visits them for some good WGC- flying, over an inspiring beautiful country with lakes…