Hi Matthew, Another confirmation for George's flight being done on the ridges of Pennsylvania. He broke four Australian records with that flight and earned the 9th 1,000km in the USA, 17th in the world. It was flown from Karl Striedcks Eagle Field as Ridge Soaring Gliderport is in a valley, receiving the morning light a little later than Eagle Field at ridge top. His preparation was meticulous and a lot of the early mapping of the ridges (glider relevant mapping that is) was done by George: 'PGM'; Pre-Google Maps. ;)
If you'd like a copy of his account of the from Tom Knauff's book "Flying the Bald Eagle Ridge" I can send it offline. Brgds, Casey On 3 Feb 2014, at 18:39 , aus-soaring-requ...@lists.internode.on.net wrote: > Send Aus-soaring mailing list submissions to > aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aus-soaring-requ...@lists.internode.on.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aus-soaring-ow...@lists.internode.on.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Aus-soaring digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Astir CS 1000k (Matthew Scutter) > 2. Re: Astir CS 1000k (Mike Borgelt) > 3. Re: Astir CS 1000k (John O'Neill) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 20:48:28 +1030 > From: Matthew Scutter <yellowplant...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Aus-soaring] Astir CS 1000k > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> > Message-ID: > <CALubygQ4Ysp2N=k-1ybmn18zhgogozc0oy13h5yrs5dxjbh...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I'm interested to know more about the standard class 1000k out and return > record - 1000.86km in an Astir CS by G.J Vakkur on 8/4/77. As if an Astir > wasn't impressive enough, in April?? > Does anyone know where or how it was done? Perhaps someone has the relevant > AG mag. > Having done some googling I find an account ("Soaring the bald eagle > ridge") of a George Vakkur flying 1000k out and return on 7/4/77 in an > Astir CS in the wave in Pennsylvania, USA which seems like too much of a > coincidence to me. > -matthew > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/private/aus-soaring/attachments/20140203/5d595ff2/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 20:38:28 +1000 > From: Mike Borgelt <mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com> > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Astir CS 1000k > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> > Message-ID: <82d5f2$q59...@ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" > > It was on the ridge, Matthew. Some years earlier Karl Striedieck did > a world O/R record on that ridge .... in a K8. Check time zone for > George's flight. > > Gawler to up north to wherever and back in that moonscape up north > should break that record. I know several 1000 km O/R were flown in > the late 80's early 90's in I think mini Nimbus and Ventus A so a D2 > or LS8 shouldn't be a problem on the right day. > > At least one 1000km O/ and almost return wasn't bothered to be > claimed. The pilot did it for his own satisfaction. It was 1003 km > and I know because Carol and I did the retrieve. He didn't quite get > home. I even took my trailer as mine had better fittings and worked > better than his. > > > Mike > > > > At 08:18 PM 3/02/2014, you wrote: > >> I'm interested to know more about the standard class 1000k out and >> return record - 1000.86km in an Astir CS by G.J Vakkur on 8/4/77. As >> if an Astir wasn't impressive enough, in April?? >> Does anyone know where or how it was done? Perhaps someone has the >> relevant AG mag. >> Having done some googling I find an account ("Soaring the bald eagle >> ridge") of a George Vakkur flying 1000k out and return on 7/4/77 in >> an Astir CS in the wave in Pennsylvania, USA which seems like too >> much of a coincidence to me. >> -matthew >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring > instrumentation since 1978 > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/private/aus-soaring/attachments/20140203/2f906d1a/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 21:39:30 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time) > From: "John O'Neill" <jo...@dcsi.net.au> > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Astir CS 1000k > To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." > <aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net> > Message-ID: <52EF71E2.00000A.04616@USER-PC> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Mathew, > > That is all correct, the flight took place along the Appenines in the USA. > We were pretty chuffed about the flight at the time as we had just bought > our Soth Gippsland Gliding Club's syndicates Astir CS the same month in 1977 > There is an Astir CS hanging from the ceiling in the Smithsonian Aero & > Space museum just out side of Washington in the USA. > However I forget whether it is the same glider or another one that broke the > altitude record > > John O'Neill > > > > > -------Original Message------- > > From: Matthew Scutter > Date: 3/02/2014 9:19:26 PM > To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: [Aus-soaring] Astir CS 1000k > > I'm interested to know more about the standard class 1000k out and return > record - 1000.86km in an Astir CS by G.J Vakkur on 8/4/77. As if an Astir > wasn't impressive enough, in April?? > Does anyone know where or how it was done? 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