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 will step back on April 30, QUEENSDAY, not because she feels old or not well, but to make place for a new generation .
So after more than 100 years we are going to have a KING again. King Willem Alexander with on his site, a young [43] Argentinian girl Maxima, who will be our future queen. We could n’t have done any better, as she is a gem.
April 30 2013 will be a BIG day in Holland, certainly in Amsterdam where the Queen will sign the papers of her abduction in the Palace on the Dam and where the new king will be inaugurated in the New Church just to the right of the Palace.
Our Queen Beatrix.
Back to soaring now!
Chile Sailplane Grand Prix;
First the nice flight from Art in the tow plane, lucky him.
As he said;”On my last day here at the Club de Planeadores in Santiago, someone suggested that because I couldn’t go soaring due to the airspace restrictions in place ,that I should at least get a view of the city from a tow plane. Two launches in the club’s L19! Great view if a bit smoggy, Huge thanks to the wonderful people I’ve met here. I felt very much at home.”
Lucky Art!
Had Didier [Hauss] only one point on day 1 ,…on day 2 ,he put that straight by winning over 347 km. with 119 km./h. on a day, where you could see the rain in the mountains ; 7 points in the pocket, bringing him on spot 4 overall, behind Rene, Carlos [both 13 p.] and Patrick.[11p.]
As seen by Art, with the rain over the mountains.
Day 3 was one with outlandings!Patrick was one of them, while Tilo won the day over 360 km. and got the 7 points.Rene got the 5 points and Didier the 4.
After 3 days Rene is still on top with 18 points, Carlos is on 2 with 15 and Tilo now on spot 3 with 13 points.
When we were in Uvalde I spoke with Tilo about his Grand Prix flying and he said he just loves it!
Tilo here in Uvalde on the tip of the Quintus.
Another good day in Narromine, the home of the 2015 JWGC.
Congratulations to James Dutschke for completing his first 750km declared flight and extending to 820! James flew a H 301!
Also to Ben Loxton who did 850 in his Ventus 2CT!!
Young Ben Loxton, a talented glider pilot as I heard in Benalla AND noticed on the results, being runner up in 18 m. class in the multi class Nationals over there this year.
Most gliders from Namibia have been packed in the containers for their return trip to Europe. Most of those gliders made more hours than ever before. What a seaon it was for Namibia!
Reinhard Schramme flew from Bitterwasser 15 over 1000 km. flights in the ARCUS out of
the 26 flights he flew. And one was a 1.335,51 km. with 140 km./h. Pretty spectacular !!
13 x 1000 km. out of 37 from Kiripotib by Robin May in the ASH 25 EB 28 is not bad either! And Pokweni shows some very good flights from Walter Binder ; 11x 1000 out of 19 !!!!
Off to Amsterdam now , but I will finish with a nice picture from Lindert Hanekom as seen on FB. It’s Oscar Goudriaans JS1C with a great and dark background. Home in time?
WOW!!! Cheers Ritz