US Team Captain’s Report- First Official Practice Day
Yesterday the first Official Practice Day was a rainout. No attempts were made to fly. Today things were a bit more optimistic. The days have started out chilly in [...]
US Team Captain’s Report – Arrived in Montlucon
Everyone has arrived here in Montlucon. Tomorrow is the first day of unofficial Practice but our team will devote most of the day going over gliders, avionics and other [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- Traveling to France
We are on our way to France. Sean Murphy (15 Meter) and his Crew Paul Wheeden arrived a few days ago and picked up his JS3. Tim Taylor (15 [...]
36th World Gliding Championships
Montlucon-Gueret, France August 4 - 20, 2021 #USTeamFrance2021 MEET THE TEAM CONTEST NEWS VIEW ALL NEWS Contest Website [...]
JWGC-Szeged: Closing thoughts from Michael Marshall
I finished the JWGC on a strong note. Saturday was our last flying day with reasonably strong but seriously blue conditions. I started with the gaggle and flew with the [...]
John Good JWGC Report 8/6-Contest Day 7
We had another dose of weird weather today. The key feature was an unusual line of lift, probably controlled by wave generated by interaction between low-level southerly winds and the upper-level [...]
John Good JWGC Report 8/4-Contest Day 5
A challenging day today, with post-frontal weather that produced some very good lift and some difficult areas, with spreadout, light rain and then dead skies on final glide. In the [...]
John Good JWGC report-7/26
Today was the final scheduled practice day at the 11thJunior World Gliding Championships, in Szeged Hungary. The practice week has gone well here: All four US pilots have good gliders that [...]
Team Updates from Daniel Sazhin
JWGC Final few days and wrap up from Daniel Greetings from Kaunas! The contest is now over and the team has now cleaned up and split up to our [...]
John Good – 31 July
The overnight weather forecast for western Lithuania was dire – it spoke of heavy rain, possible damaging winds and even dangerous hail. Most gliders here are left assembled with covers, [...]