Oz Report
Volume 16, Number 135Monday, July 9 2012
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:
How Giro Made a Cooler, Faster Helmet Thermaling drone 2012 Nationals at Big Spring Mitch and the ET for landing practice 2012 World Record Encampment - 475 miles SeeYou Recorder - it's free 2012 Chelan Cross Country Classic 2012 World Record Encampment 2012 Chelan Cross Country Classic
How Giro Made a Cooler, Faster Helmet
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 8:17:01 am CDThelmet
Article here.
The California company spent 18 months developing the Air Attack helmet, which makes its official debut when the Rabobank and Garmin-Barracuda teams wear them during flatter stages of the Tour de France. We’ll also see them in London during the 2012 Summer Games, helping riders slice the wind and keep cool, thereby saving energy — and time.
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Thermaling drone
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 8:20:24 am CDTBrad Gryder
Article and pictures here.
Thanks to Brad Gryder.
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2012 Nationals at Big Spring
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 8:20:54 am CDTUS Nationals 2012
Ramon Holguin «ielbow_64» sends this shot from Big Spring last year:
See pilot list here and sign up here.
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Mitch and the ET for landing practice
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 8:21:32 am CDT(Highland Aerosports, Ridgely, Maryland, USA)
Highland Aerosports Flight Park|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|Mitch Shipley|Paul Voight|video
Mitch Shipley held a landing clinic during the East Coast Championship. It was well attended.
Mitch Shipley «elektratow» writes:
This is an example of a high round out that Paul Voight mentioned, with trouble getting good body/hand position that allows for a good flare. The pilot slows to near trim speed high (gradient or wind lull might not have helped either), gets hands up, but never achieves a good upright position that allows high enough hand placement for a strong flare. A bit of pitch bobbling bleeds off even more energy and a late flare from a weak position results in a belly landing.
5 topics in this article: Highland Aerosports Flight Park, Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley, Mitch Shipley, Paul Voight, video
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2012 World Record Encampment - 475 miles
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 8:21:48 am CDTDustin Martin|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Manfred Ruhmer|record|video|World Record Encampment 2012
Dustin's pending world record is 475 miles or 764 kilometers. This exceeds Manfred existing official world record by 63 kilometers.
start 10:04:46
height: 3407’ MSL
ground level 421’
release location: N 26 59.498, W 99 11.564
landing: N 33 36.299, W 101 25.942
landing time: 20:59:21
landing altitude: 3096’
Jonny flew 472 miles or 759 kilometers.
start 10:16:56
height: 3578’ MSL
ground level 421’
release location: N 26 59.758, W 99 11.494
landing: N 33 34.335, W 101 23.632
landing time: 20:58:27
landing altitude: 3119’
3D animation of the flights here.
Glen flew about 290 miles yesterday (his last day here) and landed past El Dorado, Texas.
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SeeYou Recorder - it's free
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 1:05:02 pm CDTrecord|SeeYou Recorder
http://www.naviter.si/content/view/160/1/lang,en/
We have all been eagerly awaiting this. Naviter's first Android app with a similar iOS app to follow immediately after Apple approves it for the AppStore.
It's an IGC flight file recorder and its name is SeeYou Recorder. It's free. And it's actually an IGC flight recorder on steroids.
- Record an IGC file through a friendly native user interface
- Create an IGC file valid for online contests once uploaded to the SeeYou Cloud
- Display a Logbook
- Automatically upload your flight to the SeeYou Cloud
- Share your flights with others through Email, Bluetooth, Dropbox, Gdrive…
- Speaks your language (if it doesn't - write to us)
All of this for free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.naviter.recorder
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2012 Chelan Cross Country Classic
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 2:00:38 pm CDTBen Dunn|Chelan XC Classic 2012
Ben Dunn flying a Northwing Liberty 148.
Ben Dunn «ben.a.dunn» sends:
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2012 World Record Encampment
Fri, Jul 6 2012, 7:25:46 pm CDTJon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Lawrence "Pete" Lehmann|Pete Lehmann|record|World Record Encampment 2012
http://chorlton.homeip.net/spotmap/zapata.html
http://www.flytrace.com/Tracker/map.aspx?group=32
At 7:24 he was about 60 miles out.
Pete Lehmann still in the air (launched at 12:30 PM) near Camp Wood. Glauco down just north of Pete.
Jonny landed thirty miles short of goal. Pete landed near Glauco.
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2012 Chelan Cross Country Classic
Sun, Jul 8 2012, 8:09:05 am CDTChelan XC Classic 2012
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