The goal on Friday is to the northwest to Van Horn 70 miles along
highway 90. Robin and Glen are over 12,000', 7,000' AGL around 3 PM about 20 - 25
miles along the course line.
Larry is working on his harness in the hangar. Mick is at the airport. Patrick
and Rick landed out and Rich is back at the airport and Patrick back in Marfa.
Nate it... mehr

https://lt.flymaster.net/#
Click "Find Pilots" in the menu and then click "Robin Track."
The group not including Robin:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/06/24/sahara-dust-plume-gulf-coast/ mehr

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Robin Hamilton writes:
Conditions looked very good with top of lift forecast to be up
over 20,000' AGL and average lift of 600-800 fpm. Winds were forecast to be
12-18 mph out of the west with possibly lighter up high.We had a fairly slow start, launching after 1pm with Rich and Larry out ahead of
myself. I got to tow for first time behind... mehr

Get the whole story here:
https://www.willswing.com/owen-morses-new-out-and-return-world-record-flight-on-the-t3-154/
Contemplation:

This flight was a dream come true for me. For six years I’ve been
chasing the out-and-back world record, and this year, all the pieces of the
puzzle finally came together beautifully.
My previous attempts... mehr

Canceled
The sky over Texas this morning:

Forecast for the next couple of days:
Wednesday
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3pm. Mostly
sunny, with a high near 90. North wind 5 to 10 mph becoming east in the
afternoon.
Thursday
A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny, with a
high... mehr

Looks like Saturday will be the day that we can expect an improved
weather situation in south Texas. Things get fuzzy in the forecasts after
Thursday. The front just keeps hanging around when we would normally expect
(hope) that there would be a high pressure centered just south of New Orleans
that would dominate causing clockwise flow and a... mehr

I didn't subtract the 400 meter radius cylinder amounts when I did
the calculation.https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:owenmorse/19.06.2020/16:41This bumps up the US some more:
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-national:USOut and Return and Free Out and Return. He has submitted the flights for
homologation. mehr

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Gavin writes:
Today looked really good, but as soon as we got in the air blued
our fast. Just starting to pop with some small clouds now :(12:30). mehr

https://www.fai.org/news/fs-2020-updated-version-14?type=node&id=24473
We have just released FS 2020 R1.4, which fixes a bug in the
competition result reports: All points were off by a factor of 10 when FS ran on
computers that had the decimal separator set to “,”.Download link: http://fs.fai.org/trac/wiki/FS2020R1.4 mehr

Larry Bunner writes:
Sunday was a bit of a cluster for day 1. We had the last minute details to work
out and met with the Airport Manager and Airport Administrator (who flew in from
Corpus Christi). Once they found out the qualifications of all the pilots,
things went smoothly. They have provided a hangar for the week for a nominal fee
and... mehr

Gavin McGlurg writes:
We all flew. Larry Tudor is here. He didn’t fly. I took off just
before 10, I was first to ping off and only made it about 20 km. Most of the
crew bombed about 40-80 km. Donizete was the only one to get out, he landed
about 140km out on purpose as the winds eased off and wasn’t flying fast.
Shortly after 1130... mehr

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Larry Bunner writes:
Well, here we are a year later and the three of us (Robin
Hamilton, Glen Volk, and I) who flew to Canada last summer are back together for
a reconnaissance mission flying out of Marfa, Texas for the next week.Gregg Ludwig will be doing the towing on his Super Trike and we kick it off
today. Gregg has been doing south... mehr

He flew to 30 miles north of Leakey today before the cu-nimbs to the
west on the Dry Line blocked the sun. Light winds made for slow going.He is there with other paraglider pilots towing, likely at the airport.
Hebbronville is 45 miles north east of Zapata and has been used before as a
starting point for paraglider flights (keeps them over a... mehr

Owen Morse goes 5 kilometers further than Tomas Wesienberger's out and return
record in Chile.
Tom's records:
https://www.fai.org/page/civl-records?f[0]=field_record_sport:2026&f[1]=field_type_of_record:258&f[2]=field_subclass:229
World Out-and-return distance 353 km 03 Nov 2013 ratified -
current record
World Free out-and-return distance... mehr

https://hgworlds2021.mk/event-potponed/
Due to the current COVID situation and free travel across borders
in agreement with CIVL we have decided to postpone the scheduled pre-worlds for
mid August.
New dates are 16-23 August, 2020.
Competition will be run as multi class event for class 1 and class 5 pilots.

Isn't the new date about the same... mehr

James Stinnett writes:
I launched fairly early from the awesome new TTT Burnside
paraglider launch around 11:30 local time and almost sank out right away in a
flush cycle.  However, I managed to find a climb and dribble along to the south
on various mediocre thermals hoping for clouds.  The great cloud street was just
too far... mehr