Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday September 23 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com Where is the Party??? Here is the party! She turned 16 on Friday and invited her friends for a Sweet 16 -party via a Facebook- event-note. BUT …she forgot to add PRIVATE,…so about 15.000 “friends liked the message” thought you cannot refuse such an nice […]
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All kind of news from Australia !A bit of a sad finish of the blog this time!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn TUESDAY September 18 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com Overseas soaring is in progress now and starts normally first in the East of Australia. Kingaroy had great weather last weekend. One of the young pilots said, his satisfaction level was 10 out of 10. “Cracker of a day, though not easy – certainly had to […]
Interesting choise!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday September 16 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com The world and certainly Europe was looking over our shoulder to see what the people in Holland would do with their votes. Though it was pretty important for us, not everybody thought so , with about 3/4 of the population allowing to vote, indeed going […]
Looking ahead at Chaves;part 2 of the 32d WGC! And containers are prepared for their long trip.
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Wednesday September 12 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com Now Uvalde 2012 is part of our soaring history, we straight away look ahead at a new high-light in soaring, the WGC for non-flapped gliders in Argentina; Chaves. Part 2 of the 32d WGC. Last year I heard already how great the atmosphere was […]
Expensive, but..you sleep well!Jubilee-parties…80 year!!!!!Mountain- comp in the UK!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday September 9 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com With temperatures here in Holland, up to 28 dgr. TODAY, this autumn is awesome. And ..not only the temperatures are good also the clouds at some days work harder then in summer. Good on them!!! On Wednesday Spain [Fuentemilanos] had a good day and […]
“NOT FOR PILOTS”!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Wednesday September 5 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com A nice flight this week in an ASH 26 in Spain by French pilot Denis Flament; 1.093 km. with 128 km./h. from Santa Celia flying in wave over the mountains far to the East, to Cerdanya even up to 7000 m. with 25 kt wind. One […]
A photo-journal by Bert jr.! The latest GI is great!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday September 2 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com Another link to a great photo series from Bert Schmelzer jr. This time about flying from Vinon. Here is the link and the above pictures are his as well. He takes you with him during his flight explaining where he goes and where […]
Quintus M. and more !
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn August 29 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com The QUINTUS M. winner in open class in Uvalde. Quite a few pilots told me, when saying good- bye, that they were looking forward to read my blogs to find out what has happened in Uvalde .They had no time to read during the comps […]
Back with 2 feet on the ground and some personal impressions!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn August 26 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com Hello dear friends back home and back to “normal” again! What a great time I had in Texas, but with all those MANY kind remarks, I felt for a few days another person in another world! What about “world famous reporter”….. “I can unequivocally say […]
It’s over and out! A pity!!!
by Bill Elliott •
San Antonio Texas on Sunday the day after the closing party and closing ceremony! It’s over and out. Loved every minute except for 2!!! Loved the friendship from all, loved to catch up with friends I had not seen ” for ages ” and loved being part of this 32d WGC. It had for me 2 […]
