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Michelle Taylor writes:
Win a flight in the Red Bull Stunt Plane!!! The Red Bull Spot
Landing Competition will be held on Saturday, 5 January 2013. Registration will
begin at 8.00 am and pilot briefing at 9.00 am. The cost is $10. The Red Bull
Event Vehicle will be pumping out music throughout the day and Wings Team will
be sampling Red... mehr

http://www.gizmag.com/ge-fabric-wind-turbine-blades/25281/
In a bid to help shape the inexorable march toward more efficient
wind power, General Electric Power and Water is developing a new fabric-covered
wind turbine blade which promises to cut the cost of wind turbine manufacture
significantly, while also allowing a larger blade size, and... mehr

Jamie Shelden <<justtrademarks>>
writes:
We sanctioned the Flytec Championship and the three day Race of
Champions to run from May 10-19. However, due to some scheduling issues with our
sponsor who provides a huge amount of support to the competition financially
(and emotionally to the organizer), as well as some minor issues... mehr

http://www.forbesflatlands.com/blog.htmlDiscussion here:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/118763844883239/ mehr

Rudy Gotes <<rudygotes>>
writes:

There has been a small change in dates for "El Peñon Classic race"
in Valle de Bravo, the dates are from March 4th to March 9th 2013 mehr

Jeff Shapiro <<up.si.down>>
writes:
Recently, a Covert harness owner sent me a photo showing excessive
wear on the bolt that connected the main riser of his harness (at the tang) to
the back plate. He had replaced his bolt with a non stock, titanium bolt, not
provided by Wills Wing. Also, it had been tightened to the point where... mehr

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/segelflugszene/cmsnews.html?month=112012#860
An ordinary launch and an extraordinary perspective. This year,
the Soaring Club of Reiselfingen in Germany celebrates the 50th anniversary.
During the past fifty soaring seasons, the club has performed more than 93,000
winch launches.
Nearly every pattern and... mehr

Erick writes:
Blog updated with the posts, pictures and results for the first 2
tasks:http://world-phoenix.blogspot.com.es/The details:Day 0 – Road + Boat Triphttps://picasaweb.google.com/105386951176123199820/CanarianOpen2012RoadTripDay 1 – No Task35 Knots of North East. The day is not taskable so with most of the frenchies,
we... mehr

Owen Morse <<owen>>
writes:
A number of months ago, I took Aron Ralston for a tandem flight,
and he totally dug it! A couple weeks ago, he was visiting again hoping to get
in another flight, but the weather wasn't cooperating, so I thought it would be
fun to teach him how to juggle instead!... mehr

38 58 10.92 N,75 52 0.00 W,Highland Aerosports, Ridgely,
Maryland, USA
The article
here.
Ridgely's Chad Elchin, for instance, has reigned for 11 years as
the record holder for most consecutive loops with a hang glider. On July 16,
2001, at Ridgely's Highland Aerosports flight park, he looped an astonishing
(and undoubtedly dizzying) 95... mehr

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/segelflugszene/cmsnews.html?month=112012#860
Last Sunday, four 1,000 point flights out of Narromine in New
South Wales, Australia, topped the worldwide OLC scores. Allan Barnes had the
biggest flight. He has been trying for 1,000km FAI triangles for many years and
now succeeded. This flight is currently... mehr

I am discussing issues with pilots on Facebook
here.You can also contact me at davis at my web site/email server davisstraub.com. mehr

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/William Olive <<William.Olive>>
writes:
The scores on the web site are the final scores: Junior first,
Atilla second and Trent Brown third (they were the task committee....hmmmm).
Rory Duncan was first in sport class with a very good performance overall.For the last day the task committee called an... mehr

http://www.nhgc.asn.au/node/1747Cameron Tunbridge <<cameron.tunbridge>>
writes:
Gulgong 2012 task 2, storm chasing or just taking a shower.The Gulgong Classic provided a great opportunity for many pilots to fly on four
task able days, one of which was task two a 130km triangle from Cudgegong
gliding airfield to Wellington airfield... mehr

Serge Mainente <<serge.mainente>>
writes:
The winter has arrived in Europe. It is time to go flying in
Lanzarote, Canaries Islands. Forty two pilots at the moment.
Here.
Erick writes:
Atout Vents is on the road again, organizing a trip for a group of
12 French pilots going to fly in Lanzarotte this year and eight of us are... mehr

www.ul-segelflug.de/blog/37-blogs/218-soaring-in-eagle-territory.html
Alan Beavis, Marlies and Peter Eicher from Australia experience
the pleasure of flying with eagles more often than they like. Alan flies his
self-built Yando-Goat together with Marlies and Peter in their Archaeopteryx.
Besides Goat and Archy, they also fly a hang-glider as... mehr

http://www.facebook.com/tom.weissenberger?ref=ts&fref=ts
Thomas Weissenberger <<tomtom>>
writes:


324 km one way:
I launched at 1,100 m at 12 am then glided into the inversion. After five climbs
in blue thermals I could assess conditions: broken lift, best climbs between
500-800m, no ridge lift and my harness full with 10 kg of... mehr

http://www.gulgongclassic.com/
http://www.warrenwindsports.com.au/blog/travel-flying-xc/gulgong-classic-2012-task-1-2-3-4
The 200km task to the East was changed because of a problem with
airspace and a 126km task south with four turnpoints was set instead. I was late
to the launch line and got a tow about 15 minutes before the last start.... mehr

Task 3:



#
Name
Glider
Time
Total



1
Trent Brown
Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5
03:01:04
1000


2
Nick Purcell
Moyes LS RS 4
03:04:47
945


3
John Smith
Moyes LS RS 4
03:04:57
933


4
Attila Bertok
Moyes LS 5... mehr