Monday 29 June 2009

The Northern Hemisphere

things are really heating up in the northern hemisphere. Both the Europeans and the Junior Worlds are on the go, with a Polish lad in a LS8 leading after 5 days. The weather where Ulf flies was not so good yesterday - he barely got above 900m with weak climbs. Meanwhile in the West Jim Payne, still in the SparrowHawk, reported as follows:
"Mission of the day was a 500 km speed triangle. SeeYou says I can claim 3 Ultralight Glider World Records: Speed Around a 500 km Triangle, Triangle Distance, and Free Triangle Distance. Ran out of daylight else would have managed a 1,000 OLC km. Thank you, Greg Cole, for use of your excellent sailplane."
http://www3.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=918781
At the same time Mannie and Thorsten Streppel are having a great time in Parowan, Mannie took a Cirrus around a 703km OLC course, whilst Thorsten marked up 1048km in a LS 6.
EY

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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