Looking back onto 40 years of gliding, my first flight in the swiss-made Archaeopteryx was not only very exciting, but an entrance into a new world of soaring.
Entrance into a New World of Soaring
by Bill Elliott •
— Weekly Digest
Concordia Deploying Its Drogue Chute
by Bill Elliott •
At the recent Perry contest I was able to try the chute and it worked fine after a few small changes. Trish Drury was nice enough to make a series of very good pictures of the Concordia landing with chute deployment which was very helpful in sorting out the small issues. The Drogue chute is…
Day 4 @ Sisteron–Word of the Day … by a NOSE!
by Bill Elliott •
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!
Day 2 @ Sisteron: “Making the Impossible, POSSIBLE’!
by Bill Elliott •
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!”
Jean-Marie Clément introduces TopFly-Patagonia to French TV
by Bill Elliott •
For more than a decade the French glider pilot Jean-Marie Clément has regularly taken advantage of the Southern summer and traveled to the Andes to explore the world famous wave systems and to take advantage of great soaring. Meanwhile he has launched several TopFly expeditions and on his website he has published several reports as…
Exciting Soaring News from Some Comps
by Bill Elliott •
… and awesome weather in parts of Europe! This blog is a bit long, but there is SO much news. ENJOY it! Great weather, but also disappointing weather, comps and Nationals,… With a HIGH over the North sea the predictions for this weekend were more than hopeful. Yesterday it proved to be true, now in…
Updates on 4 May Payne-Tito Wave Flight
by Bill Elliott •
Jim and Dennis launched at sunrise from Minden. I’m in KY on a family visit, sorry for the delay. They have over 500 km with a long run between Hurlong and Lone Pine thus far. I will be blogging on the Soaring Café site for the rest of the day.
LAUNCHING of a new Café
by SC Admin •
… and, why are you making me log in? When you visit SoaringCafe.com later this week, it’s going to be a little different. We’ve been working behind the scenes for many weeks getting ready to launch our new and improved site. The biggest change you’ll notice, is that in order to read complete stories and the…
2014 Italian 13.5m Championship, Alzate, Italy
by Bill Elliott •
The 2014 Italian 13.5m Class Championship, also known as the Leonardo Brigliadori International Cup, is currently in progress along with the Italian Club Class contest at the Alzate airfield in northern Italy. The event is aptly named after “Leo” Brigliadori, the much liked and respected competition pilot (16-time Italian National Champion, 1982 EGC Champion, 1985…
Looking back at 3 comps in Europe and the last one for the season in Australia!
by Bill Elliott •
The AZ Cup in Zbraslavice in the Czech. Rep. suffered on several days, from unstable/unflyable weather as did the Pribina Cup in Nitra in Slovakia as well as Fatraglide14. BUT they still managed to fly, though the weather was hopeless! The 3 comps in the East of Europe, were attended by 223 competitors in total and with…
