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Task 6, last task

(Coll D'Ares LP, Lleida, Spain)

Campeonato de España Ala Delta 2021|competition|Icaro 2000|Moyes Litespeed RX|Open Internacional Vila d'Àger 2021

https://airtribune.com/campeonato-de-espana-ala-delta-2021-y-ix-open-inte/results

Sport and Class 5 results at above site also.

Task 6

Final without day scrubbed:

Final with your bad day eliminated:

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Photo by Serge.

Task 5

(Coll D'Ares LP, Lleida, Spain)

Campeonato de España Ala Delta 2021|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Moura Morrison|Moyes Litespeed RX|Open Internacional Vila d'Àger 2021

https://airtribune.com/campeonato-de-espana-ala-delta-2021-y-ix-open-inte/results

Sport and Class 5 results at above site also.

Task 5:

Cumulative:

Task 4

(Coll D'Ares LP, Lleida, Spain)

Campeonato de España Ala Delta 2021|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Moura Morrison|Moyes Litespeed RX

https://airtribune.com/campeonato-de-espana-ala-delta-2021-y-ix-open-inte/results

Sport and Class 5 results at above site also.

Task 4:

Cumulative:

Task 3

(Coll D'Ares LP, Lleida, Spain)

Campeonato de España Ala Delta 2021|competition|Icaro 2000|Moyes Litespeed RX|Wills Wing T3

https://airtribune.com/campeonato-de-espana-ala-delta-2021-y-ix-open-inte/results

Sport and Class 5 results at above site also.

Task 3:

Cumulative:

Right after Monte Cucco

(Coll D'Ares LP, Lleida, Spain)

Campeonato de España Ala Delta 2021|Christian Pollet|competition|Icaro 2000|Moyes Litespeed RX

https://airtribune.com/campeonato-de-espana-ala-delta-2021-y-ix-open-inte/results

Given that it would be hard to drive from Italy to Spain and get to the meet on the first day, you can drop one contest day from your results.

Task 1:

Missing leading points? Probably trouble with the track logs.

Task 2:

Cumulative:

An enclosed ATOS.

Toruk Lucarelli

A.I.R. ATOS VR|Enrico Lucarelli|video

Enrico Lucarelli <<enrico.lucarelli>> writes:

I finally had the opportunity to perform the maiden flight of something I have been working on for little more than a year. As I used to joke about, “I don't know if it's ever going to flight, but just the fun of inventing it is already more than worth it”. Well, now it´s even flying, and the thrill of the first test flight can hardly be described. You can see the maiden flight (very first and second take-off/landing) here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZHODwzBrRw  (or just search in YouTube for “toruk lucarelli”).

Basically the “thing” is a modification on the ATOS VR, similar in concept to Felix Ruhle´s Cage. I made it with a stable and steerable landing gear, and added a motor. It's a 160 cc rotary (wankel) motor, 25 hp, which allows for a very nice push. The wings remain unmodified, so I can go back to fly my original hang glider any time.

The position is very comfortable and allows for a spectacular view. Handling is very nice, although I must admit, with only the two flights performed (those that can be seen in the mentioned YouTube link), my immediate priority right now is to learn to fly it, and until then I won't be able to give many more details about things like handling quality and so.

There is still a lot that can be improved in this preliminary version. Now that it has proven to fly, I can start working on a making the landing gear retractable, the propeller foldable, improving the fairing, etc.

Thu, Jun 30 2005, 3:00:00 am EDT

Big Flights

Enrico Lucarelli|weather

Kinlan, David (D.G.) «dki» writes:

Three big flex wing flights on Aeros Combats in Spain over the weekend which were logged on the HOLC on 26 June 05.

Here

Looks like an aerotow start, all flights were +300km distance and all landed with a few minutes of each other at 8 PM local time. The weather was classic postfrontal with a SSW wind direction. Height reached by Enrico Lucarelli on a Combat L was an impressive 3600m amsl over the flatlands of Salamanca, his 364km distance is I think the furthest this year in Europe. Spain has had little rain over the winter and is tinder dry at the moment. Their route also had no airspace to worry about.

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Enrico Lucarelli|landing

Enrico Lucarelli, <enrico.lucarelli@bt.es>, writes:

It is now two years since I began applying a slightly personal technique of landing. Not that I had difficulties in landing before, but the fact is that my landings since that moment are of the "max one or two step" sort, and I fly regularly every week, holidays and vacations, usually XC.

My glider is an AEROS KPL, but I have successfully tested this method with other gliders, too.

What I do is absolutely standard, approaching, climbing up the uprights, but at the very moment of pushing for flare I change the hands to the side of my hip, grab the cables that go to the back and push out.

I know landing using this technique of grabbing the cables is not new. The difference is that I do it from the standing position, and this makes quite a difference. Here are the advantages, and remember, it's now more than two years, hundreds of landings, since I have applied this technique with a success rate of a 100%:

It is very easy. In modern gliders (and perhaps a modern glider is a must of this method) when you climb up the uprights and are standing the back cables are very close to you. In fact they are within the eye's view angle, and the movement is very simple. You can not possibly miss them, and it takes a fraction of a second to grab them and push out. No need to anticipate (like a cowboy drawing the pistol, you know?).

It is safe. The moment I change my hand position is just the very moment I have decided to flare. I am in a low speed, a no more correction situation. I can always change my mind in the very last second and stick to the uprights, for instance if I feel the wind is strong enough to make needless a strong flare.

It takes no effort. Since I am grabbing further down, pushing out is almost like pushing air.

It is comfortable. It helps to keep the body vertical and getting the center of gravity as back as far as possible. Whereas by pushing out the uprights, if done too late, you remain with the arms stretched to the front, the feet behind and watching the ground "approaching" your nose and that of the glider. Also, after the landing the weight of the glider goes to my hands as if I was lifting a pair of suitcases.

It is very effective. The flare is as authoritative as it can be. After the flare I usually stand on my feet with no steps. Even if I push out a little too early, the glider does not climb up.

I don't intend to convince anybody to apply this method. It's just that I am quite happy with my landings and I would like to hear somebody else's opinion.

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