First of all a picture of the Murray River, as the place Echuca, along the Murray is flooded now as well. These pictures were made on December 15 in Tocumwal , but though the water had lowered, it is still high after new rain.Also Horsham, well known from the Horsham Week and Rochester suffer from high water. An 8 year old boy from the Shepparton -area, drowned as the Goulburn River flooded and 64 other towns have problems with high water as well.
The Benalla Nationals are still going strong.Though …the weather is not really flash. After 4 days it is either Peter Temple or Lisa Trotter who win the day in sports class, so Peter is 1 after 4 days , leading with 100 points.Day 3 had 4 outlandings and the day before was cancelled.
In club class a bad 3d day for Terry Cubley who was one of the many “out-landers” [more then half of the competitors in this class !!!] that day, loosing nearly 500 points. That day was won by an other “oldie” Paul Mander in the SZD 55. Interesting to see that the ” kilometer-eaters ” Tobias and Alan, who fly through the year a lot and far , are on spot 1 and 2 while the “toppers” are not doing TOO good.
Good to see that Peter Trotter, who lost 150 points by using the wrong start point on day 1 , and ended that day at spot 25 from 31, is on day 4 again on spot 8 overall!!!!
Virgin America is buying for 3.8 milliard Euro, 60 planes of the type Airbus A 320!!!! According to Airbus they received in the year 2010 more orders then Boeing. Don’t know why , but I like Richard Branson.
The crews of Quantas planes have been pretty busy over the last time. This time it was a 747 with 375 passengers from Sydney to Los Angeles who encountered problems with an engine and the pilots decided to land as a precaution, close to Fiji. The island of Nadi, was happy to host all passengers in their motels and 18 hours later everybody arrived safe in LA.
Saftey first!!!!
It is great to see how busy the UK friends are with the preparations for this years EGC and WWGC and for the 2012 WGC ‘s.
10 Coaches have been selected and they will put time and effort in helping out the Brittish International team both old and young to be as good as possible.
Not the least names; Pete Harvey, Brian Spreckley, Andy Davis, Pete Masson, Jay Rebbeck, Richard Hood, G Dale, Dave Watt, Mike Young and Jez Hood, a great mix of young and older pilots and wow, what experience in competition soaring they have !!!
Short news today , see you on Sunday Ritz