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…
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!”
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!
Since I am planning go directly from the Perry Regional to Bermuda High for their regional, it’s time to do the Airport/Airstrip review for that site as well. My basis for this review is the 2013 18m waypoint database. My first, second, and third impression was “Wow – this is a clean site! I could only find…
In our last episode, we saw the melding of the Spartanburg and Perry airport/airstrip waypoints, the correction of old photo era turnpoint offsets, and other minor corrections. The result was a pretty complete and robust Perry waypoint database, which was then published in its various file formats as ‘Perry2014a’ on John Leibacher’s wonderful Worldwide Soaring…
While at the Seniors I was introduced to Hugo Vifian and told by one of his club members that he writes amazingly detailed flight reports. I recently was given a copy of one from his flight with Karl at Seminole and Hugo has allowed it to be shared here. For background, this day was cancelled…
Having failed miserably in my original attempt to solicit local knowledge input via direct appeal to the Minden crowd and the contest organizers, I have included the entire contents of my September 2013 Minden Nevada Airport review below, updated as appropriate with the most recent Google Earth images. Note that although I reviewed every airport/airstrip…
