The Pribina Cup 2012 is over
The last day of the Pribina Cup 2012 competition was cancelled! … [Read More...]
Happy Easter!
Gliding Sport wishes all pilots and gliding fans safe flying and happy Easter! … [Read More...]
12th Pribina Cup 2012
Two days left to the biggest international competition this year – Pribina Cup 2012 (last year 237 registered for the competition). Like always gliding competition in Nitra is being held during the Eastern holiday, 7 – 14 of April. 128 pilots will compete in four classes: club, 15m., open and … [Read More...]
IGC meeting 2012
2012 International gliding commission (IGC) meeting was held on 2-3 March in Potchefstroom, South Africa. During the meeting many interesting subjects have been discussed and proposed. Here are some that might be interesting: Continental records Since most of the gliding records during the last … [Read More...]
Reiner Rose receives Lilienthal medal award
105th FAI general conference took place on 11th – 16th of October 2011 in Belgrade, Serbia. During the opening ceremony various awards, medals and diplomas were presented for aviation personalities who have contributed in aeronautical disciplines. The most honourable award in soaring discipline - … [Read More...]
IGC pilots’ ranking list 2011: TOP 100
Almost all of the major gliding competitions are over this year. After the year of competitive flying this is how the IGC ranking list looks like. Last time ranking list was updated on October 5th. … [Read More...]
Quintus M – New open class glider
Schempp-Hirth started its newest glider’s Quintus M serial production. Quintus is a 23 m. span single-seater open class sailplane which was first presented during the yearly expo at AERO in Friedrichshafen. It is a new product from Schempp-Hirth with cooperation with Lange … [Read More...]
2011 OLC season is over. Klaus Ohlmann 4th time OLC champion
Klaus Ohlmann wins 2011 OLC competition. During the 2011 OLC season more than 13 thousands competitors made 101,358 flights and flew nearly 27 million kilometers. … [Read More...]
Video from 7th junior Word gliding championships
Very nice videos made during junior World gliding championships 2011 in Musbach, Germany. … [Read More...]
Tim Kuijpers and Felipe Levin – 7th junior Word gliding champions
Tim Kuijpers clinches his first world gliding junior title on the last competition day while Felipe Levin without any difficulties defended his earned title during 6th JWGC in Rayskala 2009. General info 7thFAI World junior gliding championships 2011 was held in Germany, Musbach from 5th to 20 … [Read More...]
Interviews by Dutch team during the 16th EGC Pociunai
The Dutch team at the European gliding championships 2011, Pociunai had a reporter Joris and a camera-man Jeroen who created daily impressions based on interviews with pilots, crew and organizators. Most of the interviews are in English language. … [Read More...]
16th EGC Pociunai. Last competition day. Closing ceremony
The last competition day saw an exiting finale. In 15m class Henrik Breidahl from Denmark finished on equal points with Denis Guerin from France. Loui Bouderlique dropped to fourth. In 18 m class Zbigniew Nieradka from Poland regained second place and Frank Markus hold first place in an open class. … [Read More...]
16th EGC Pociunai. D9-10. Stormy weather. Zbigniew Nieradka down, Russell Cheetham up
A very small gap before arrival of cold front allowed a short AAT task for two hours. Only 18m class gliders was launched, for 15m and open classes the day was cancelled. Zbigniew Nieradka dropped to fourth place, Russel Cheetham climbed to second. … [Read More...]
16th EGC Pociunai. Rest day. Visit to LAK factory
10th competition day has been cancelled due to bad wather. Task setter Algimantas Jonušas organized an excursion to LAK factory. … [Read More...]
16th EGC Pociunai. Day 9
It was another exiting day here in Pociunai. AAT for 2 hours for all classes for it was expected some showers and overcast as yesterday. Lukasz Wojcik (LI) broke his glider. France still dominates in 15m, Poland in 18m. Russell Cheetham climbed to third place overall. … [Read More...]
16th EGC Pociunai. Day 8
The day which looked really promising in the morning turned into black Tuesday. During the launches Thomas Gostner made a ground loop and damaged his glider. Gäumann Markus from Switzerland landed out in to the fields and broke his Nimbus 4. Thankfully he is safe. … [Read More...]
Content:
- The Pribina Cup 2012 is over
- Happy Easter!
- 12th Pribina Cup 2012
- IGC meeting 2012
- Reiner Rose receives Lilienthal medal award
- IGC pilots’ ranking list 2011: TOP 100
- Quintus M – New open class glider
- 2011 OLC season is over. Klaus Ohlmann 4th time OLC champion
- Video from 7th junior Word gliding championships
- Tim Kuijpers and Felipe Levin – 7th junior Word gliding champions
- Interviews by Dutch team during the 16th EGC Pociunai
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Last competition day. Closing ceremony
- 16th EGC Pociunai. D9-10. Stormy weather. Zbigniew Nieradka down, Russell Cheetham up
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Rest day. Visit to LAK factory
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Day 9
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Day 8
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Day 7. Classical music concert
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Exciting Day 6
- 16th EGC Pociunai. D5: 600km plus tasks!
- Who will become a champion at 16th EGC 2011 Pociunai?!
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Day3
- 16th EGC Pociunai. Day2
- 16th European gliding championships in Pociunai
- Giorgio Galetto wins 4th gliding Grand Prix
- 16th EGC Nitra. Closing ceremony. Champions
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