Hello Mike I doubt whether Klaus Ohlmann would be impressed if he knew that you called him an “old fart”.
Yes, the VW engineers have some glider pilots amongst them. For starters, the son of Gerhard Waibel works in the VW development department. Kind regards to all Bernard > On 1 Oct 2016, at 6:34 PM, Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Notice that the glider was being flown by an old fart. The ute driver was > young bloke. Does this say something about gliding? > I've long suspected the VW engineers have some glider pilots amongst them. > The Golf has a high rated towing capacity. > > Mike > > > > > > At 06:21 PM 10/1/2016, you wrote: >> yeah, i have flown passed there in a Janus!! >> >> it is pretty steep for sure. >> >> Ron >> >> On 1 October 2016 at 17:16, Derek <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Meh. Iâve spent hours sipping hot chocolate and watching aircraft arrive >> and depart on that runway. Itâs very steep. You could roll a glider to the >> lip of that runway and push it over the edge and it would be able to take >> off. >> >> Good drama and camera work though J >> >>  >> >> From: Aus-soaring [ mailto:[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Future >> Aviation Pty. Ltd. >> Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2016 2:50 PM >> To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. >> Subject: [Aus-soaring] Interesting way to advertise a Ute. >> >>  >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GTX6S8q7x8&sns=em >> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GTX6S8q7x8&sns=em> >> >> Nice glider and a challenging runway. >> >> Thanks, Nige! >> >>  >> >> Kind regards to all! >> >>  >> >> Bernard  >> >>  >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >> <http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >> <http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring>Borgelt Instruments - >> design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 > www.borgeltinstruments.com > <http://www.borgeltinstruments.com/>tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: > int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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