With the World hang gliding championships about to
begin at Hay, Rohan Holtkamp flies from Hay to Bathurst (456 KM) .
With the World record at over 700 KM, seems it's
only a matter of time before 500 Km falls in Australia. Not bad for performance
less than a Grunau Baby.
http://www.davisstraub.com/OZ/9.005#0
As we walk into the Worlds Headquarters (Wednesday
evening) Rohan Holtkamp (Worlds organizer) on an Airborne Climax C2-13 is on the phone. He landed just
before 8 PM having set the new Australian distance record of 456
kilometers. He launched at 11 AM on a very windy day here in Hay (it's been windy for the past three days - we wouldn't have
held the contest on these days). When he launched the sky was dark
with thick low clouds at about 2,000'. It didn't start breaking up here
until about 1:30 PM. Launches were difficult due to the strong
winds.Rohan was just short of 300 miles when he was stopped by forests and
mountains to our east. He came back the next day.Jonny launched at
8:30 AM when he previously set the record from Beechmont in Queensland earlier this summer (http://ozreport.com/toc.php?8.221#0)
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