Oz Report
Volume 15, Number 128Thursday, June 30 2011
World Record Encampment, Zapata County Airport, Zapata, Texas, USA
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"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
- In this issue:
The 18 meter nationals Next aerotowing session in the French Alps Flapping came before flying The World Record Encampment - Wednesday The future of oil drilling in America
The 18 meter nationals
Wed, Jun 29 2011, 2:39:30 pm CDT
Ron Gleason|sailplane
Ron Gleason sends:
The URL's for the various tracking sites:
Google Maps: http://www.hawketracking.org/hobbs/files/tracking.htm
Google Maps Large: http://www.hawketracking.org/hobbs/files/trackinglarge.htm
Mobile: http://www.hawketracking.org/hobbs/files/mobile.htm
Results at: http://ssa.org/members/contestreports/contestresultsdetail.asp?id=2167&display=results
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Next aerotowing session in the French Alps
Wed, Jun 29 2011, 2:39:49 pm CDT
Jacques Bott
Jacques Bott «jacques.bott» writes:
When? From July the 15th till August the 6th
Where? Serres (Klaus Ohlmann's airfield) in the southern French Alps:
http://www.quovadis-aero.com/?_Lang=_en
For who? Any Class 2 or 5 XC experienced pilot
For what kind of flights? Let's have a look at my last sessions' flights:
At what cost? 15 to 20€ per aerotow pending of number of pilots, 31.50€ per flying day for airfield use
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Flapping came before flying
Wed, Jun 29 2011, 2:40:08 pm CDT
wildlife|wildlife
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13879244
Thanks to Lorenzo
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The World Record Encampment - Wednesday
Wed, Jun 29 2011, 3:29:23 pm CDT
record|Robin Hamilton|World Record Encampment 2011
This is what it looked like yesterday at 5 PM from the air:
Today the sky is a bit more congested with cu's:
BJ is out trying to fly a fast 100 km triangle. Gary and Robin Hamilton should be out there also.
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The future of oil drilling in America
Wed, Jun 29 2011, 3:34:01 pm CDT
(Harrison Piloncillo Ranch
Airport)
The estimate above came from here. But, I'm more interested in what is happening here in Texas, and in particular with the lands over which we fly. North of Laredo and up to south of the hill country you'll find the Eagle Ford Shale. One estimate is that within a decade there will be an additional 30,000 oil/gas wells there between Laredo and San Antonio.
More here: http://eaglefordshaleblog.com/ and http://oilshalegas.com/eaglefordshale.html. Because of the location of a recent landing by one of our hang glider pilots we are particularly interested in this portion of the country to the north here. See more maps here.
Oil shade was a joke in Colorado in the seventies (think Dinosaur, Colorado in the nineties). Now it is no joke in Texas. Mineral rights purchased at $10,000/acre plus.
Oil shade extraction is economic at $90/barrel. We've lived with natural gas extraction here in Zapata County for the whole time that we've flown from Zapata. Of course, it is often the roads that go toward wells that have allowed us a way out after an outlanding.
Five times the amount of oil resources in the US than are found in Saudi Arabia? If true that would certainly make us a little less interested in Middle Eastern and North African adventures.
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