Woke up to a big bang!! Thunder,…in mid winter!!!
In between up to 12 cm. snow in the S and E of Holland here rain and this afternoon wind up to 9 bft.!!!!
Same as in Benalla, but without snow and much higher temperatures!!
A good rest-day and hopefully a fabulous REAL Aussie-weather 2d-week.
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BENALLA .
FRIDAY THE !13TH.
“Welcome to 13th January
Day Cancelled. No Briefing today.
Strong winds forecast for after 1200. Please make sure gliders and trailers are secure.”
courtesy Swiss Chris.
AND
The Danish team shared this picture with their pilots at briefing and behind them NZ and Australia
with to the left TC Ib [Wienberg] who flew and flies often in Tocumwal and knows the area VERY well, explaining to Arne and Jan.
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Some pictures from the days before as shared by the organizers.
In fact that “ugly duckie” is a great-looking toy. I guess the most photographed tug in the world.Great!!!
the Boerje Family from Sweden and the new VENTUS 3.
finishes.
After nearly 1 week the overalls scores look like this;
15 m. ; after 2 days 1. Sebastian Kawa 1590 points…2. Uys Jonker 1540 p. …3. Attie Jonker 1535 p.
18 m.;after 2 days 1. Killian Walbrou [France] 1906,….2.Arne Boye Moeller [Denmark]1901…3. Sean Fiddler [USA] 1898. The first 15 pilots in this class are within 100 points.
open; after 3 days 1. Michael Sommer [Germany] 2030…..2. Tassilo Bode [Germany] 2015,….3. Andy Davis [UK] 2004.
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ANDES CUP in CHILE
Day 6 and task 6 ….so good!!!!
No chances in” who is going to win the day”. It was Carlos again who flew 348 km. during a 3 hour AAT. in time 3.02,51.
Rene was runner up again with with 386.45 km. but he needed 3.16,14. On top of that his glider has a higher handicap.
The Andes Cup is till now clearly the “Carlos- and -Rene -show!!!”
All gliders arrived back at Vitacura Airport.
In between Jeppe enjoys the Bariloche in Argentina and flying with Jean Marie to the fullest.
“What can I say: again an incredible flight with Jean-Marie!
Took off at 11:30lt for a 1000+km attempt towards Esquel in the south and then to Zapala Neuequén in the north.
A cold front was nearing so therfore a ‘rather short distance’ planned…
We managed from the local ridge at Nehuel into the first wave.
Crossed the startline and than 9 hours of pure wave flying along the rotors!
Some facts: wind was at a certain point 160km/h, therfor a short groundspeed record of well over 400km/h (previous was 365km/h, 2 years ago with Max Leenders in Douglas).
Most spectacular was the ‘hydraulic jump’ wave that took us to FL280 or 9 kilometers altitude!! Man, man, man… Incredible experience.
TOPFLY: Merci bien!”
Argentinian wave!!”
courtesy Jeppe.
Busy, busy so quickly off to Amsterdam. More in the weekend. Also about day 4 and 5 in 1987.
Cheers Ritz