ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com After loosing the entire blog with pictures and all, I try again . Holland; The first month of the year has just disappeared. I only spend a few days in Holland but was part of the weather over the last days, when we had […]
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Chile!
by Bill Elliott •
ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN WEDNESDAY JANUARY 30 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com She turns 75 tomorrow, our inspiring Queen Beatrix.In general ,people in Holland retire around their 65th birthday. For that reason speculations about the abduction of our queen went on for years. Last monday evening at 7 the historic moment was there. After 33 years Beatrix […]
All kind of news!
by Bill Elliott •
ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN SUNDAY JANUARY 27 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com To get back in the rhythm some short news as guests come to see me today. Soaring in Australia is still BIG! On Friday Narromine had great weather [again!] and Adam Woolley was one very happy chappy flying his St.Cirrus. The day before he flew […]
Back home! Epilog with engine 4 in the main role!
by Bill Elliott •
Alphen aan den Rijn Friday January 25 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com Kangaroos at the caravan park at Sportaviation LAST PART OF THE DIARY ,FIRST FROM KUALA LUMPUR THAN FROM HOME. It’s 6 in the morning and I arrived 1 hour early at Kuala Lumpur, meaning 1 hour more waiting to continue to the minus 7 […]
What a 1000 km.-flight by 21 year old Matthew in the LS 4!!!!
by Bill Elliott •
When looking at the OLC, you see sometimes flights from people and slowly you start to admire them. Not difficult to guess who those pilots are , as I refer often to them. They even feel like my friends , while I do not even know them. Matthew Scutter is one of them. Looking at […]
Last WIFI job in Tocumwal!
by Bill Elliott •
Public library on January 22 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com Last day in the library. Though the skies REALLY looked beautiful yesterday the distances were not as good as hoped for , but at least all pilots were happy with the great clouds and for Terry in the ASH 26 a nice over 700 km. flight. […]
Last WIFI job here at Sportaviation!
by Bill Elliott •
Sportaviation reception room on January 21 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.glidinginternational.com www.soaringcafe.com Last day of writing at Sportaviation and I am grateful for the use of their WIFI. A real good one as well. Tomorrow one more day of daily news and then the diary 2012/2013 will be closed. Hope you enjoyed the trip with me! The […]
It all happened on the last day in Chaves!!!!!!
by Bill Elliott •
Sportaviation on Sunday January 20 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com Wow, WOW, wow,it happened all on the last day!!!! It is a splendid Sunday here in Tocumwal, sunny , clouds up but far East , a nice breeze , not too hot not too cold. It cost me some effort to not rush out to a WIFI […]
Back home in Toc. after a jolly good day and night!
by Bill Elliott •
Sportaviation Reception Area on Saturday January 19 2013. ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com Welcome to the Benalla prize-giving and party. This morning at 7 AM, I was ready to leave the Glider City Motel in Benalla again , as Lisa and Peter Trotter were so kind to take me with them to Tocumwal, where they had to […]
Last day at Benalla Multi class NATIONALS! Updated all the time!!
by Bill Elliott •
BENALLA CLUB HOUSE on JANUARY 18 2013 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com www.soaringcafe.com www.glidinginternational.com With updates, I will go through this last day at the 51 nationals here in Benalla. We left Tocumwal with a tough westerly and arrived here with nearly no wind, but it picked up later as well. It looks like they are going to fly. […]