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CIVL World Online XC Contest 2021

Thu, Oct 7 2021, 10:44:30 pm MDT

The hang gliding winners

Alain Chauvet|Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|Christopher Friedl|CIVL|Claudio Deflorian|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Glauco Pinto|Konrad Heilmann|Pascal Lanser|Patrick Chopard Lallier|Philippe Harignordoquy|Stella Potgieter|Toni Raumauf|World Online XC Contest 2021

    Class 1 - 292 pilots participated

  • Konrad Hailmann (Brazil) - 1758.61 points, the best flight 428.32km in Tacima (Brazil)
  • Glauco Pinto (Brazil) - 1724.20 points, the best flight 467.68km in Tacima (Brazil)
  • Alain Chauvet (France) - 1671.44 points, the best flight 233.65km in Chabre Espranons (France)

    Class 5 - 115 pilots participated, the top three being:

  • Toni Raumauf (Austria) - 2125.41 points, the best flight 359.37km in Kossen, Scheibenwald (Austria)
  • Christopher Friedl (Austria) - 1704.62 points, the best flight 328.54km in Bischling (Austria)
  • Deflorian Claudio (Italy) - 1482.12 points, the best flight 206.53km in Col Rodella (Italy)

    Class 2 - 14 pilots participated, the best being:

  • Patrick Chopard Lallier (France) - 2074.95 points, the best flight 291.03km in Aérodrome Aspres - le Chevalet (France)
  • Philippe Harignordoquy (France) - 2035.00 points, the best flight 287.23km in Aérodrome le Chevalet (France)
  • Pascal Lanser (France) - 1946.15 points, the best flight 254.85km in Aérodrome de Villerupt (France)

    Women Class 1 - 17 pilots participated, the best being:

  • Sasha Serebrennikova (Russia) - 851.86 points, the best flight 283.90km in Schöckl near Graz (Austria)
  • Corinna Schwiegershausen (Germany) - 729.73 points, the best flight 152.82km in Monte Cucco (Italy)
  • Stella Potgieter (France) - 716.72 points, the best flight 102.22km Chabre Sud (France)

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Florida Report

Thu, Feb 27 2003, 8:00:01 pm GMT

Ron Gleason|Toni Raumauf|Brad Gyrder|Flight Design Axxess Plus|A.I.R. ATOS C

Brad Gyrder went 60 miles on his Flight Design Axxess Plus yesterday. As I was landing near the Turnpike, a pilot over the Quest Air field was reporting strong lift. The day definitely got better later.

Ron Gleason is very excited about his new AIR ATOS-C, the prototype version that Toni Raumauf was flying at the Australian meets. We’ll see how well it goes when he gets it. It is always nice to have a better glider than all your flying buddies. It’s coming by boat from Oz and should get here by the end of March.

Who will have the hot ship this April in the rigid wing category? It feels like the top flex wing ships are very tight together on performance. Maybe I just can’t see or feel the differences.

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On the road »

Wed, Feb 19 2003, 10:00:03 pm GMT

Archäopterix|Belinda Boulter|Gilbert Griffith|Hans Bausenwein|Johann Posch|Toni Raumauf|William "Gary" Osoba jr.

We’re spending the morning in La Mesilla, the old town, next to Las Cruces. It means either the little table or the little mesa. But it doesn’t look much like a mesa around here. The trailer is getting its lug nuts checked out and fixed. I wonder if as I’m hauling all my worldly possessions around in the thing (and Belinda’s too) whether it weighs too much. I’ve got few possessions though, and the ATOS is in Germany.

Light winds, cool air, blue skies this morning.

Hans Bausenwein writes from Bright, Victory, Australia, so say that he had a good flight there two days ago, but that it is too smoky today. We rented him our car for $6/day US. Gilbert Griffth just fixed up the rear universal for it after Hans and Frigga drove to Bright. They should have picked up our bikes there also.

Johann Posch is in Austria skiing with his boys who are being home schooled. He and Toni Raumauf are going to the AIR factory on the 24th to check out the ATOSes, theirs and mine.

I’ve asked Felix to get in touch with Gary Osoba to see if a meeting of the minds can inspire new thoughts. Spoke for a long time with Gary a few days ago, and he is scheming about the upcoming ultralight sailplane record season. Lots of action on that front from many different quarters. For example, the manufacturers of the Silent are perhaps coming out with a model with increased span.

Gary is in contact with the Swiss makers of the Archäopterix http://www.shv-fsvl.ch/d/glider/index.htm. This $80,000 glider may yet go into production as a more affordable model. The Swift Lites are $20,000 and you’d need to add a faring to the Archäopterix to make it competitive in Class 2.

Gary hopes to be coming back down to Quest Air this spring to do some more hang gliding and learn to fly more high performance models than the Aeros Target (although, Bo was out flying the Stalker the other day). He’s thinking about out the Exxtacy. If you can go from P to RW in three days, why not sailplanes and Target to Exxtacy?

I hope to have some new news soon about the Sparrowhawk, but at the moment I’m a little out of the loop.

Two more tires (replacing those with bubbles from tire separation – bad roads?) and three hours later we headed out of Las Cruces at 12:45. Just drove through El Paso which certainly presents its ugly backside to the freeway. It makes the rest of west Texas look good.

We arrive in Fort Stockton at 6:30 PM in time to finish up the Oz Report (written while not driving).

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