After de-registering VH-VJS and returning the Nimbus 3 to the USA, imagine my surprise at being invited to fly VH-VJS during my recent trip to Australia! While a few of you will have seen Steve Leonard’s VJS at open class contests in the USA, the Australian VJS is now Todd Clark’s JS1 hangared at Lake…
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Jonker Sailplanes 2011 Year in Review
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[Leo sent me a Merry Christmas email yesterday and I thought I would share it with our readers. — WE] Jonker Sailplanes has had a relatively good year with steady production of JS1 Revelations for customers worldwide, numerous JS1 pilots having contest success, and many fabulous OLC flights. The manufacturing year ended in mid-December with…
2011 Racing Archives
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World Championships 2011 Pre-World Gliding Championships, Uvalde, Texas 2011 FAI Juniors World Gliding Championships, Musbach, Germany National Championships 2011 Open Class Nationals, Uvalde, Texas 2011 US 15m Nationals, Logan, Utah 2011 US 18m Nationals, Hobbs, New Mexico 2011 US Standard Class Nationals, Cordele, Georgia 2011 Sports Class Nationals 2011 World Class Nationals and 1-26…
New Castle Photos from Wolf Elber
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Concordia: First Assembly of Wings to Fuselage
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Rand and I had the pleasure of visiting Dick Butler yesterday and got a glimpse of the fully assembled Concordia. DB has made the US Team for the 2012 WGC in Uvalde, TX and he is now working feverishly to complete the Concordia in time for the Worlds. The pictures below are of the Concordia…
WE Report, Day 7, UvaldeGlide/PWGC
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P7 and I had a good day yesterday and are currently tied for 2nd Place overall. Brad Edwards (JS1) and Jerzy Szemplinski (XG) are close behind. You can view the results here. The weather yesterday brought us considerable consternation as there was a cirrus deck to the the north and east and Dan Gudgel said…
WE Report, Day 6 PWGC/Uvalde
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Day 6 is in the bag and I am quite disappointed. It always amazes me how on the days I feel like I did good, someone seems to “smoke me”. And, several people did as I finished 6th for the day and gave up too many points dropping to 4th overall. The weather forecast suggested…
WE Report, Day 5 PWGC, Uvalde
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We have had the day off today as a rest day. I arrived 3 days early: drove two days, flew two days, repaired a flat tire on the main gear on the next day, and then competed five days — I guess I was ready for a rest day. Today’s chores included laundry, lots of…
WE Report, Day 4 PWGC/UvaldeGlide
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Our wonderful weatherman, Dan Gudgel, provided us with a new weather term yesterday. As he was summing up the forecast, he said, “We will have plenty of Cu at the start, then the few Cu my mid afternoon and then ‘Poof’!” He then turned and walked off the stage. Not sure about the spelling of…
PowerFlarm Installations at UvaldeGlide
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Tiffany Fidler took several pictures of the installation of the new PowerFlarms in gliders at UvaldeGlide. You can see them below.
