Worlds Article in the Lufthansa Magazine

The sport of soaring is getting major publicity this summer from Luthansa who have placed a 10 page article in their in-flight magazine about soaring and the world contest. Click the link below to read it. It is written in both German and English

http://wgc2008.org/uploads/media/Artiicle_Lufthansa_Magazin_Schleicher_by_Marc_Bielefeld.pdf

US Standard Class Nationals

I'm back from competing in the US Standard Class Nationals in Cordele, Georgia. We managed to fly 6 out of the 10 days, but the weather was pretty marginal.

Two of the six days had mass land-outs and I was able to get home both of those days. One day everyone landed out as high cloud and strong winds came in and completely shut down the lift.

All in all it was challenging weather to fly, but I did OK. I placed 5 out of 28 at 96.3% of the winner's score. I beat one of the US Team members going to the Worlds in Reiti this summer and was only 29 points behind the other US team member.

Complete Scores and details are available on the SSA website at:
http://www.ssa.org/members/contestreports/ContestResultsDetail.asp?id=289

The News is in

Willem and Joerg talked to the DG factory yesterday and they have confirmed that Willem's LS10 will be ready in time for the contest. This means that as a result of the cut in Team Canada from 3 to 2 pilots by the organizers that Willem and Jerzy will be competing in Luesse.

If there are any cancellations between now and the contest there is still a chance that I can compete. So I will keep things on hold for a while!