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MAX STEVENS HONOURED It was announced at the IGC Plenary meeting in March that long-serving member of New Zealand Gliding Max Stevens has been awarded the Pirat Gehriger Diploma. This Diploma was created by the FAI in memory of Pirat Gehriger, the first President of the International Gliding Commission (CIVV) and may be awarded annually for eminent services to inter-
3rd FAI World Sailplane Grand Prix final now secure Due to financial and other difficulties a decision as to the site and time for the 3rd Grand Prix had been delayed. IGC President, Bob Henderson has recently announced that Chile will host the contest at the Club de Planeadores de Vitacura in January 2010. Six qualifying events have now been held and with two more still to run the current pilots qualified for the final at this time are:
national gliding. Stevens is honoured for his work in organising the
QUALIFYING EVENT
COUNTRY
successful international Grand Prix contest (held in New Zealand).
Sebastian Kawa
FAI World Sailplane GP Champion
POL
His more than forty year involvement in the sport as participant
Stefano Ghiorzo
1st Place, Torino
ITA
and organiser were also noted in the citation.
Olivier Darroze
1st Place, St Auban
FRA
Christophe Ruch
2nd Place, St Auban
FRA
Chris Curtis
1st Place, Lasham
GBR
Petr Krejcirik
1st Place, Nitra
CZE
Olli Teronen
3rd Place, Nitra
FIN
Graham Parker
1st Place, Narromine
AUS
Riccardo Brigliadori
2nd Place, Narromine
ITA
Uli Schwenk
1st Place, Santiago
GER
Tilo Holighaus
2nd Place, Santiago
GER
CLUB HOLDING ON In February Bryan Malcom, Acting Treasurer of Waipukurau Gliding Club advised that the club would not be affiliating members after March 31st and discontinued their mailing list. He said that talks were under way with the Hawkes Bay Club to explore joint flying operations as a single club. However in April Malcom again contacted SoaringNZ to say that the club has elected to continue affiliating members for the time being. We hope this will start a
DOUG HAMILTON OUR LAST HILTON RECIPIENT?
reversal in fortune for Waipukurau and they will grow membership and remain an active club.
The magnificent 1500 km flight by Doug Hamilton has won him a place on the prestigious Barron Hilton Cup soaring camp. Hilton, in conjunction with Helmut Reichmann, started the international soaring competition in 1981. Pilots who had completed the longest triangle flight in one of the five regions of the world were hosted for a week of soaring and fun at Hilton’s Flying T ranch in Nevada. However, sadly, SoaringNZ has been informed that the coming Hilton soaring camp will be the last. While we have been unable to confirm this it appears that Barron has decided to call it a day.
A prewar German Minimalist glider with gear down. Photo courtesy Vintage Kiwi.
April 2009
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