ISSOUDUN last day!!!! Courtesy Mark Pal It turned out more hectic yesterday than earlier expected and hoped for. Several girls could not come back AT the field due to the 20 kts wind. Some landed within the 4 km. finish ring, but one of the Russian girls “landed “in a tree and was hanging there, till […]
Extra edition on July 11 2013 at 10 PM. ISSOUDUN Pictures courtesy Mark Pal. Of course I checked the preliminary scores from the toppers first thing in the morning. It all looked alright. In 15 m. Susanne will feel the breath of the 2 French girls, Anne and Jutta, “together we are strong” in the […]
“The long thin shade”: MSC ASW-24 flown by Yves Bastien What!?! Your club doesn’t offer therapeutic massage at the flight line? Towplane graciously provided by Montreal Soaring Council on final beside the grid; pilots bolted into their cockpits ready to go on Saturday. Three of the competitors – MF (and crew) Krzysztof…
On Day 7, July 3th, the CD called a 3.5 hr TAT with large circles for both classes, so the pilots would have plenty of room to avoid the thunderstorms that were forecasted for the afternoon, pretty much in all quadrants of the task area. No delaying the launch or lingering in the start gate;…
DAY 1 at the WWGC as followed at home. Briefing day 1 as shared by team USA. Due to the long winter and the late spring all grass and crops are high in most parts of Europe. Normally it would all have been cut down already, not this year, so there is some concern about going…
Another “test flight” in Tullahoma, Tennessee on the same field the Concordia first flew, but perhaps a little different. The Cherokee II was a very popular plans-built glider, circa 1950s. The particular ship was passed around for many years, until Gary Flandro got his hands on it. The original logs were lost but the…
It seemed to me that this Saturday is just an average day again. I knew that I was close to the first solo, but I still had made some mistakes so I thought that I will have the great moment later. Probably this will be next week, but not now. However, I felt something exciting……
When people see the long slender trailer being towed down the highway they often wonder what is contained within. This guy thought he would answer their questions with a graphic depiction of what is contained within. Thank you Gary Childers for this nice photo — Ed. The picture of the trailer is just a plan…
Spin Training last weekend, First Solo soon! It is not easy to depict my busy weekend… during these 2 days I just had 3-3 take-offs, but there were brand new challenges for me. Unluckily the weather was not the best, even so we started the flying day at midday. On Saturday the wind from the…
I was listening to the radio on the way to the gliding club and that old Baz Luhrmann song was playing, you know the one, dishing out life advice by the bucket load and advocating the wearing of sunscreen. Anyway there is a line of that song which goes, “Do one thing everyday that scares…
