Alphen aan den Rijn Sunday July 25 2010 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
Sorry for the delay in writing, I was busy from the early morning till the late evening but had a “ball” with my Australian friends. They left this afternoon and before the next guest arrives on Wednesday, there is some time to write. Not a lot happening in Szeged at the moment, as after the very HOT weather, they have rain now and I heard they might have rain till Thursday!!!! Hope not!!!
After all the problems with the internet and the server loosing lots of important data and on top of that their CD , it seems the organization is still far from ideal. The delay by the rain might help them to get better organized.
Pilots however seem to be ready; for them it can begin, this 31 WGC in Szeged for flapped gliders. Quite a lot of my friends are over there , so I try to write as objective as possible.
Who is going to win??? No idea! But..I put my money on a few; as Pete Harvey, Michael Sommer, in open class, Ronald Termaat, Ricardo Brigliadori , Giorgio Galetto and David Jansen and Killian Walbrou, in 18 m. Leigh Wells and Györgi Gulyas in 15 m class.
A REAL strong ” field” in 18 m. class!!!!
Yesterday was a SUPER DAY in Holland. One of the pilots Jeroen flew 832 km. in a discus bT. Very special such long nice flights in Holland. Not flown over a big area but it shows Holland can really have some good gliding weather as well. Sicco flew 887 km. starting on the first cable and arriving home in his Ventus 2b 17 m when nearly everybody had gone home. I was with my guests touring through the canals in Amsterdam and looked at the fantastic skies , knowing “things” were happening.
A bit of rain here today and temperatures dropped from the low 30thies to the low 20thies, so I guess no nice flights here today!
Since I had my guests the weather has been great in several parts of Europe. Bayreuth in Germany had 1000 km. flights again so did Fuentemilanos. Nice flights also in Austria and Prievidza, Angers in France, Nitra and Norway.
Friend Daan [Pare] travelled to the USA to one of his fgavourite airfields Ely. He was there in the right time as the USA had booming weather also in Truckie and Minden. Daan flew 2 1000 km. flights and several 800 and 900 km flights.
Very sad about the disaster in Duisburg where 19 people were “crushed to death “, as nearly 1.4 million people visited the LOVE PARADE while the field where it was held was “only” for 500.000 people. One 22 year old Dutch student was amongst them as well as an Aussie girl from NSW from 27. “All those young people came to celebrate and instead they are dead or injured”, is what Chancellor Angela Merkel had to say.
A bit tired so more news on Wednesday or tomorrow when they fly in Szeged, cheers Ritz