Alphen aan den Rijn    Sunday  July 18 2010      ritzdeluy@hotmail.com

Back to the normal edition on Sunday after a few extra editions covering the last days of the 31st WGC in Prievidza. Hope you enjoyed them. Was a bit emotional, I see now, about the lottery day and more special about the fact that pilots would not have had a fair chance to start. But with no complaints everybody must have felt like treated fair. When on  that day pilots would have not  flown, the tasksetter would have had atleast 9 out of 10, is what I hear.

Heard the Germans celebrated with bubbles in their pool  yesterday evening, so they should, great achievement. Forgot that Volker who is 2d in Club class was the Junior World Champion in Rayskala. Bright future for this young man!
Matthias who ended on a very nice 4th place was WGC champion in Rieti in club class in 2008.
SUPER Mario  2 d now, won the 2009 European Championships and bronse winner today, Mighty Michael won the 2008 WGC, so these boys are just good!!! And..as I know already for years their team on the ground is super , with cars on track to see how the situation is on the TP’s  and they mostly have a very experienced meteo person with them, I even remember a doctor one year.
Interesting is also that THE winner in Club class Arndt ,seems to have NO International experience, but he was 2d during the 2009 German Nationals.
That’s it about the the 31 WGC for non flapped gliders. As I expected the organization was top, let’s give the accidents and incidents a place and remember all the great flying and the TOPPERS who won. What great class they showed! Sorry I did not mention the world class too much, to be honest it is less interesting for me, but there are still a few VERY good pilots flying in that class!Szeged is next. Some leave straight away after the prize giving from Prievidza to be tonight in Szeged. It is about 400 km. so not too bad for the travellers who are used to much longer distances of driving to visit comps.
For the last pictures and stories I advise you to go to the site of your country or the WGC site at www.wgc2010.sk

This weekend is the busiest weekend  on the road and in the air for Holland and for more parts of Europe.  About 1 million people go on holiday. About 475.00 travel from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport.
In the UK is a busy weekend as well and for some, 16.000 a bit of a tragic one as one of the bigger tour operators got broke. People on holiday  in Turkey and Greece have a problem, though the guests from Turkey travel home as expected but Greece and people still going on their holiday might have a ”nightmare-holiday”. Talking about Greece it is SO HOT overthere that huge fires in the area around Athens have started. 8 Special water-bomber-planes and 4 helicopters help the fire brigade busy on the ground.

Got newsletter number 3  from the JS1 importers  and they “go” with the new ways of PR, having their own Facebook site. 6 Pilots are flying the JS 1 in Szeged, of course both owners of the business Attie and Uys Jonker and further on some TOP pilots as Ronald Termaat from Holland, Russell Cheetham from the UK and good ”old” John Coutss from New Sealand and not to forget Bill Elliot the current USA National winner in the JS1.

Jonker Sailplanes will use their Facebook page for daily updates on the JS1 results during the WGC2010. You can find the Facebook page via de following link http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jonker-Sailplanes/188010050668?ref=ts

Also in the news;
–In addition to the “WGC Six”, Jonker Sailplanes personnel will be at Szeged to assist the pilots (and crews) of theJS1 Revelations with technical support, a range of proprietary spares and a wealth of information. As active gliderpilots, Jonker Sailplanes recognises the need for good continuing support after delivery.

And Todd Clark and Brett Hunter are the newly appointed agents for JonkerSailplanes in Australia and New Zealand. So good news for my friends over there.
toddclark@hotmail.com    for Australia and    hunter.b@ihug.co.nz   for New Zealand

CU Ritz, busy weeks ahead so I might not be there on Wednesday. My friends from Australia arrive that day.Please check if I am there otherwise maybe on an other day, it will be for a few weeks a bit irregular. Sorry about that.