Team USA Report – WGC Day 3
August 20, 2024 A remarkable day today at WGC2024 - among the more notable in the long history of contests here. With a vast high- pressure system sitting almost on [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 2
August 19, 2024 It was hotter and a bit bluer today, a trend that is predicted to continue in central Texas. (Numbers like 107F are being heard in tomorrow’s [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 1
The first competition day of the 38th World Gliding Championships in Uvalde TX featured genuine 'Uvalde weather'. For the uninitiated, this means conditions that are borderline miserable on the [...]
WGC Uvalde – WATCH LIVE NOW
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) in Uvalde, Texas starts Sunday, August 18th, and you can catch all of the action in several places. It is quite an honor to [...]
38th FAI World Gliding Championships – Uvalde Texas
Uvalde, Texas August 14 – 31, 2024 #USTeamUvalde2024 The competition will be heating up literally and figuratively this month in Uvalde, Texas as the United [...]
Team USA Report – JWGC Contest Day 12-13
Contest Day 12 The penultimate day of the contest – and our 9th flying day. We were treated to cumulus fields again today with drying from the west later in [...]
Team USA Report – JWGC Contest Day 9-11
Contest Day 9 Today was scrubbed due to a front approaching from the west that brought with it thick high level overcast and light rain. Although conditions were blue during [...]
Team USA Report – JWGC Contest Day 7 & 8
Contest Day 7 Today dawned with the promise of a good thermal and cumulus forecast but with the specter of high and mid-level cloud cover during the [...]
Team USA Contest Day 6 – USA Wins Standard Class!!
Contest Day 6 Contest day 6 task was a massive Area Task with a minimum distance of 460km even for club class. Maximum standard distance was over 800km! [...]
Team USA Report – JWGC Contest Day 3-5
Contest Day 3 The first official day 3 was scrubbed (to no-ones great surprise) and we got to spend the afternoon catching up with administrative and household duties while [...]