This Concordia glider thingy...
Just imagine landing this on an airstrip up some valley with a tail wind...YeeHaa...
It's like going into McDonald's...ordering an ASW27 and then asking to "supersize me young man"...
Anyhow...the interesting points out of the WGC in Uvalde (said You-val-Dee so I'm told) are the speeds. The Open class winner yesterday ( A Pommy chap...lost in Texas) averaged 161kph on a thermal task. No ridges or wave here young grasshoppers. Just big thermals, 10 knot climbs, very long glides, and lots and lots of ballast.
The other point to note is the Amercians finally conceded that their scoring site was crap (you heard it here first) and opted for SoaringSpot. About time.
I should be careful what I say here...they still have the Death Penalty in the Lone Star State...but then again they still have Dubya...a bit like having a batty old aunt in the family that no-one likes to talk about...
And it's raining again...like you didn't already know this...
Another 100mm's over night...to add to the 475mm's we have had since mid-July. In a word - wet...
But take heart Nth Island folks...I twas in Christchurch yesterday and it was grey, wet and cold.
Oh... and I missed an important milestone...this blog has been running for 3 year last May. 720 posts later and I'm still finding interesting ways to test peoples patience.
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