the other way of flying: safety, extreme low energy need, zero CO2 with the Electric Launch Device
The summer started with very good flying conditions regarding the weather, allowing us to go, almost each time we went flying, deap into in the Ecrin mountain range where the tops of climb were very high: •23/6 4300m •28/6 3950m •7/7 4000m…
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With the arrival of summer, the nice weather came back. So far, we haven’t got perfect flying conditions to turn big XC triangle from Aspres: The Queyraz and Ubaye area didn’t look nice to cross so the East route to…
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We showed up at the “Fête de l’Air” at Aspres sur Buëch airfield, saturday July the 9th. We made aerotow as well as bungee launched demo flights with the Swiftlight On static display we had both a Swiftlight and a…
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With a weather improvement, Cornelia, Peter, Roger and Philippe came to fly in Aspres the last week of May with their Archaeopteryx. Some of them flew in the vicinity of the airfield, the others cross country guided by jac, and…
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Klemen came from Slovenia at the beginning of May: Paraglider pilot, he first made the twin-seat glider training course with the Aéroclub of Aspres, then in a one day bungee training course he was ready for his first solo flight. Unfortunately…
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May the 21st, Franz Pacheiner past the 500km triangle mark with his Archeoptéryx ! Unfortunately the flight cannot be registered as a world record in the FAI 2 category as the Archeopteryx was equipped with an auxiliary electric engine. Nevertheless, congratulation to Franz…
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A few flights after he completed his training course and first solo flight in his Swiftlight, thanks to a good weather window, Pascal could enjoy the breathtaking panorama of the Ecrins mountain range. He only had to follow Jac, who, as…
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5000m in the wave of “les Bans” in a laminar West-Northwest 45km/h wind blowing from Valgaudemar, great fun with the Swiftlight 🙂 Below, weak wind in the very cold convective air mass, very turbulent till 3200m (dry unstable air + big…
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