This was sent to the Cafe by Eric Neubronner in Germany. Looks like a great day! — Ed. Last Saturday we had African conditions in Germany. Cloud Base at approx 3800m, airspace only gives us 3000m . Well, what a pity but still had some nice flights. Here some pictures taken from our Arcus T.…
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…
Here is the translation from an exclusive “retrospect” by Fabian Peitz, who flew HIS first and Australia’s first 1000 km for this season AND the first 1000 km from Stonefield as well! To remain exclusive, I publish it at the same time as my blog, this Wednesday. —-It all started on the evening of the…
If you’re from region 11, you may know about the PASCO Egg regional capture trophy. A beautiful walnut (I think) egg that is occasionally captured from various glider operations mostly in Northern California and Nevada. It has been a goal of mine to try and capture the Egg for Avenal from what has practically become it’s permanent home at Air Sailing.
Well I had a great soaring flight yesterday. I decided to fly the NG-1 since my Cherokee is in the garage right now and I’d like to do some work on it over the next few weeks. Plus the weather was looking good but not booming and if I flew the Cherokee I would want…
Well, they’ve gone and done it again! The Dynamic Duo, a.k.a., Gordon Boettger and Hugh Bennett, drove Hugh’s Duo Discus to yet another U.S. distance record on Wednesday, April 20th. This is the third record set by the indefatigable pair in the past two months and the longest distance flight posted on the OLC for the current season.
[This just in from Linwood Stevenson, SSA State Recordkeeper for Tennessee with and updated section by Sarah’s excellent co-pilot, Dianna Fleming] Sarah Kelly-Arnold, of Chilhowee Gliderport fame, had an amazing flight on Thursday, March 24th. Sarah and Dianna Fleming appear to have set 12 new records in the Feminine Category, Open Multiplace Glider for Tennessee,…
[Note: Here is a flight report from arguably my best flight last season. ] I had a fun time skipping work yesterday. Declared a 300 km out and return and took off at ~ 1PM. I made sure to get a valid start within 1 km of the start point on the opposite side of…
Last weekend (Feb 5th and Feb 6th 2011) we had the strongest mountain
wave ever experienced in the Rhine valley. Altitudes reached were FL240 – not too shabby for mountains that are
only 1.500 ft high in average, isn’t it?
[Author’s Note: Here is a newspaper article I wrote after a great flight I had in September 2010, Enjoy! — Tony Condon, abcondon@gmail.com] Ever dream of soaring like a bird? Most people have, I believe, and it was this dream that brought me to Littlefield over Labor Day 2010. When faced with the long weekend…
