Special Thanks to Our US Soaring Team in Lithuania
Just wanted to express to the members of the US Soaring Team in Lithuania how much we appreciated being able to follow your adventure through pictures, videos, posts, and facebook. Thank [...]
Some Lithuania Closing Pictures and Video
Team At the US Closing Ceremonies Team signing thank you cards for our Sponsors John Good relaxing while Bob Fletcher enters tasks [s3video url="https://ussoaringteams.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IMG_0549.mp4" width="350" height="350" autoplay="yes" /]
The Party’s Over…..
and Team USA is heading home. Here all captains pose in front of newly carved totem pole celebrating WGC2016. Other totems celebrate previous World or European championships. The German [...]
Great Weather Day
Finally, beautiful weather with streets all the way to Poland. See picture attached. All gliders on task: Club – 396km Standard – 460km 20 meter Multi seat – 461km
Challenging Wx.-Lessons to be learned
After 100% landouts on August 9, I messaged Captain Fernando Silva because of the low number of points scored AND because Soaring Spot was indicating zero points for all of [...]
August 7: To fly or not to fly???
Mike Westbrook captured these shots on a contest day that was not to be. All were gridded and ready to go??!!!! The Club Class was launched and task opened [...]
Competition Day 4-Will there be a “shake up” with the scores?
A sunny day emerged in the am hours, but multiple landouts could shake up the leaderboard. Mitch Hudson snapped this pic as he left the airfield for his pilot; [...]
Day 2 from the Club Class Guys
"Terrific evening sky after Day Two here in Pociunai. Great Team Flying with Mike Westbrook from start to finish." Tim McAllister "Day 2 for the US Club Class Team [...]
Mückenputzer
"Sailplane wings are designed to be extremely efficient but the smallest amount of contamination from bugs or rain can degrade the performance up to 10 points.... In areas [...]
A demonstration of kid’s training gliders at Pocuini
"Here's how soaring gets started here in Lithuania..... Endless cable loop runs from one end of the kids training runway. Tow cable attaches to the "shoe" and allows the [...]