Alphen aan den Rijn Wednesday September 28 2011 ritzdeluy@hotmail.com
Pictures courtesy; Bert Kuijper at Terlet 2011
The State comps in Queensland in Warwick, South from Toowoomba, started with a good day for Bruce Taylor, gaining the first 1000 points.But also the 2d day was his , so 2000 points in the pocket. He flew his JS1 with a speed of 125 km. over 334 km. distance. He topped after 2 days the 18 m. class and combined 18m/open class.
On day 3 NO surprises Bruce won again! It is not that there are no other good pilots, specially in the combination with open class which Bruce tops as well, are several WGC -level-pilots, he is just good and I look forward to see how he is flying with that speed-weather in Uvalde during the WGC.
Day 4 was cancelled! Showers!!! And…showers are predicted for tomorrow as well. And…the temperature drops from 26 to 19 .
Good to see my “mate ” Gerrit [Kurstjens] is back after a period of loosing interest in competition soaring and….by being too busy with his farms! In the past I was his TC during several comps . Gerrit moved years ago from Holland to Toowoomba and is married to Pam another top pilot.
I believe that our “move down under ” in 1996 , inspired Gerrit , but also Francesco and Grietje who run Australian-Soaring-Corowa now . After packing the containers in Holland, last weekend, they moved back to Corowa for an hopefully awesome 2011/2012 season.
Gerrit was 3d after 2 days but got no scores for day 3 , have to check on that, so dropped at this stage to 7. His wife Pam is after 3 days on spot 4. Good on her!
Finally the Dreamliner arrived in Japan. All Nippon Airways waited an extra 3 years but now they can fly this “green”machine! Due to strikes and problems, lot’s of problems, Boeing was 3 years behind schedule! Good luck for some of my Japanese friends who fly for All Nippon and maybe now on this “cool” plane. Looks beautiful and in the future we can see them everywhere as Boeing sold 800 of them.
Not long and ” Segelfliegen Magazine ” will be international and…online. As said before , the German version is digital now ,but also still printed and from October 1 onwards the VERY FIRST International digital version will be a fact ,look at ; www.segelfliegen-magazine.de
The ad about the English version of the most read German magazine will appear soon, so be stand- by if you are interested.
The magazine is published every 2 months.
Last I told you how good the season started in Australia, now I can add that South Africa is doing well too in this early spring-period. Oscar [Goudriaan] flew from Potchefstroom 428 km. in JS1 with 107 km/h speed on the clock. In fact the East of Australia and the region of Potchefstroom have soarable conditions through the year. Not for big tasks , but you can enjoy your glider and the elements of weather.
The European Alps are still giving joy to pilots and some of my Finnish friends moved to Spain for a camp at Santa Cilia Jaca and fly there up to 400 km. tasks in an Arcus and Duo Discus.
Found some interesting news at our soaring site www.zweefportaal.nl. For those who are interested in the 2011 Green Flight Challenge hosted by NASA at the Moffett field [ named after Rear Admiral William A. Moffett in 1933] and sponsored by Google, where planes as Pipistrelli , e-genius and Tauris G4 are going to “fight ” for a prize of 1 million dollar, here are 2 links I found on this site.
www.cafefoundation.org
www.blog.cafefoundation.org
See you next Sunday. Going to enjoy a late -summer -period with up to 25 dgr.Enjoy the pictures by Bert Kuijper from the NK 2011 at Terlet Holland.Ritz
