UVALDE TEXAS on Wednesday August 15 2012 Good morning, from Uvalde and look at this news we got!!! —After the Junior Pre-World Contest in Leszno, Poland ended on Sunday 12 August, the Dutch competitors (Jan Willem van Doorn, Stefan Telkamp, Sander Luimes en Nick Hanenburg) decided to fly back home to Holland on Monday 13 […]
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Great and long days in Uvalde!
by Bill Elliott •
Uvalde Texas Sunday August 12 2012 REST DAY today After 7 days of practise and 7 days of sometimes pretty hard work in the air and ON the ground pilots and crews enjoy a WELL DESERVED rest day . They cope with heat, dust , and unstabel weather but….they all love flying here In Uvalde. […]
A bit from this , a bit from that!
by Bill Elliott •
Greetings from a bit less hot Uvalde on Tuesday afternoon August 7 2012. Wow this competetion is getting better and better. Are you following me on www.soaringcafe.com? Pilots I expect to be good are less good and others are winning. But it is still a long way to go. The juniors in Poland are doing a great job […]
WGC has started! You are sitting first row.
by Bill Elliott •
Uvalde Texas August 5 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com As you know by now, just click on the soaringcafe link and you are sitting first row to follow the WGC. I was a bit sad to miss the Olympics , but I do like the way the USA shows their talents as well. Was very impressed […]
Greetings from hot Uvalde.
by Bill Elliott •
Uvalde Texas August 1 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com In the middle of the practise days, 2 to go today and tomorrow. Then the opening and then the real thing will start! Looking forward to it. Not all pilots fly, you really need a rest day in between. I have never been drinking SO much as […]
UK Club Nationals! Uvalde! Mt Beauty Gliding Club!
by Bill Elliott •
A WARM hello from Uvalde, where it is 38°C today. I left Holland at 7.20 by plane to London yesterday and arrived here at 4 p.m. in San Antonio. For nearly 22 hours I was up and about. Arriving at the airport the first glider passing over my head while finishing on the first practise day was Dutch pilot Peter Batenburg in T4. We were just a bit late to see the CONCORDIA arrive for the first time at Garner Field. It was very nice to catch up straight away with the Dutch team and a few others. Spoke with Dick Butler as well and made a picture of his CONCORDIA.
DMJ… or the German Junior Nationals and…More Pilots Fly in Uvalde
by Bill Elliott •
FINALLY good weather, also in the middle of Europe!!!!! And it started already on Sunday with several nice long flights. And … even better… it stays at least till Friday. Today we will have around 30°C here in Holland.
Was it earlier only Spain or the USA with top weather; now the middle of Europe had happy weather as well.
Uvalde! Which Gliders in What Class!
by Bill Elliott •
For ALL the news about Uvalde you can click on SoaringCafe.com [above] and you find the LATEST and also what happened last week. A WGC is the highest form of competition soaring in our sport, so I will spend a lot of time on it, not only on the Soaring Café site.
Without forgetting in this blog all the other news you are used to, I will continue my blog as well on Sunday and Wednesday while being in Uvalde, as well as writing every day for SOARING CAFE.
A Bit of This and a Bit of That!
by Bill Elliott •
Young Bert Schmelzer is back in Switzerland and shares with us his fantastic pictures again. I love them!!!!! Here are a few pictures loved by a lot of people, from his latest series “Ridgeflight towards Thun and Back” 19 pictures].
Miserable “soup”- weather!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday July 15 2012 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com PRE_WWGC briefing in Issoudun. courtesy Hans Spekkers It is mid summer and we “enjoy” 16dgr. yes at least PLUS, but this is no weather for summer. Looking at the OLC July shows not a lot of flights, while it should be “booming”. Topper till […]
