The free flight glider: the other way of flying
After Formiga from Brasil, Jun came from Japan to learn flying the Swiftlight. He was here for a short week, and want to come back next year to fully enjoy flying in the southern french Alps 🙂 Here is a…
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Michaël flew 3 over 300km FAI triangles in his Archaeopteryx during his one week stay in Aspres sur Buech. He is now the leader of the OLC FAI class 2 world ranking 🙂 Here his first triangle, July the 13th, with…
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After a 475km out an return flight along the austrian, italian and slovenian boundaries June the 15th, Franz made the best OLC scored flight in FAI classes 1, 2 and 5 July the 19th: a 9h55 484km FAI triangle from…
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A peine revenu d’Aspres où il a perfectionné ses approches et tourné un magnifique circuit en haute montagne avec Jac et Marc, Rob a bouclé le 19 juillet un magnifique triangle FAI de 257km en Swiftlight-E, en Allemagne le long des frontières…
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Last Friday, Marc in his Swift, and Rob in his Swiftlight-E had the opportunity to fly with Jac from Aspres sur Buëch. The weather was fine, we took off at half past noon and met over the Aiguille de Serres…
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Rob came to Aspres sur Buech from Luxembourg to complete his training on his own Swiftlight-E: L shaped, steep angle, close U shaped, and S shaped approaches don’t have any more secret for him; this gives him confidence should he have to…
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Roger Ruppert made 2 500km out and return attempts, one in the Alps, the other in the much lower Jura mountains. The 20th of June he took of from Münster in the upper Rhône valley, turned in Austria near the…
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We had the worst spring than ever… eventually we had the first great flying day on July the 1st 4280m in the Ecrin mountain range 🙂 The second attempt was the right one: it only became good after 4pm The…
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On June the 29th, Marc, Formiga and Jac had a nice flight around Aspres and the Pic de Bure. A GoPro camera was installed just behind the head of the pilot on the right side of Jac’s Swiftlight, and here…
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Géraldine came from Switzerland to learn flying ultralight glider, instructed by Philippe. She made her first solo flight in an electric powered Arcaeopteryx, allowing much easier taking off than aerotowed. She is the first lady to make her first solo flight on an…
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