As of September 2010 George Vakkur was living near and flying from Warren
Airfield in Vermont. Jill and I called in hoping to catch up with him but he
was on a Florida vacation at the time. The GV trailer was at the airfield -
spotted by my wife as my own initials. The Warren airfield was bowling green
standard!!
Geoff V
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Mike Cleaver <[email protected]> wrote:
There used to be (maybe still are) Australian National records flown anywhere
by Australian national - not sure if they have to be citizens or just permanent
residents - and Australian local records flown in Australia by any pilot. Most
of these happen to coincide, being flown in Australia by an Australian.
George Vakkur was/is an Australian, but flew his record in the US.
Wombat
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On 3 Feb 2014, at 21:53, Matthew Scutter <[email protected]> wrote:
So, why is it an Australian record? Or do I have a fundamental misunderstanding
of what constitutes a record?
http://www.gfa.org.au/GFA-Sport/records-australia.html
On 3 Feb 2014 21:14, "Mike Borgelt" <[email protected]> wrote:
It was on the ridge, Matthew. Some years earlier Karl Striedieck did a world
O/R record on that ridge .... in a K8. Check time zone for George's flight.
Gawler to up north to wherever and back in that moonscape up north should break
that record. I know several 1000 km O/R were flown in the late 80's early 90's
in I think mini Nimbus and Ventus A so a D2 or LS8 shouldn't be a problem on
the right day.
At least one 1000km O/ and almost return wasn't bothered to be claimed. The
pilot did it for his own satisfaction. It was 1003 km and I know because Carol
and I did the retrieve. He didn't quite get home. I even took my trailer as
mine had better fittings and worked better than his.
Mike
At 08:18 PM 3/02/2014, you wrote:
I'm interested to know more about the standard class 1000k out and return
record - 1000.86km in an Astir CS by G.J Vakkur on 8/4/77. As if an Astir
wasn't impressive enough, in April??
Does anyone know where or how it was done? Perhaps someone has the relevant AG
mag.
Having done some googling I find an account ("Soaring the bald eagle ridge") of
a George Vakkur flying 1000k out and return on 7/4/77 in an Astir CS in the
wave in Pennsylvania, USA which seems like too much of a coincidence to me.
-matthew
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