10 AM;
What a splendid evening we had yesterday. A bit excited ,like on a school trip and after the good and quick meeting with for nearly everybody good results , [at lot of applause yesterday afternoon before it was over!] we drove to Nijmegen the oldest town from Holland and than to Malden the home of the club from Nijmegen called NIJAC.

 

All happy and relaxed delegates after doing a big job!

The bus stopped in front of the hangar after driving through very small roads hitting a few branches, but the driver was just good and got a huge applause.
Delegates were very pleased to see the new hangar; gliders  stood there clean and shiny as in a static show as well as the famous van Gelder winch and Mr. Peter van Gelder was there to explain about the winch he built years ago and he got a lot of interesting listeners.

 

Eric “our” new president in the hangar on ground level and the Russian delegate Nina Shalneva in the basement.

 

Climbing on and sitting in the VAN GELDER.

Mr Peter van Gelder explaining how it works.

More about this excellent evening in soaringcafe , later from home as I nearly have to leave now.
Very important as well; MARINA GALETTO is one of the new 5 vice presidents in the IGC board. She is the 2d lady after Ann Welch who has this honor and she finds it a huge honor , but she said : “Ritz it’s only starting now”.
More about that later as well.
So we have 5 new vice presidents in the bureau, 3 from Europe Artur Rutkowski from Poland, Christof Geissler from Germany and Marina from Italy.
From Chile there is Rene Vidal and from Australia Terry Cubley.
The new 1st vice president and representing Eric when necessary is Brian Spreckley from the UK.

All about how the young boys from the NIJAC lifted Jiri from Czech Rep. in a SOHAJ 4 ,hanging up-side-down, on the ceiling of the club house with pictures and a link to a video from Reno Filla later from Alphen , as well as the regular Sunday blog with an interesting story from Australia about WHALE SEARCHING in a duo discus.
Just said goodbye to a few stiil here and ready to leave Papendal now,
Hope you enjoyed it. I did.

Cheers and CU later today from soaring.eu and soaringcafe
Ritz