GFA has ratified the following Australian Record flown by Harry and Wendy
Medlicott in their Arcus M on 18/1/16 from Corowa:
20m 2-seater class
Free Distance via up to 3 TPs
Distance awarded: 948.5 Km.
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Pam Kurstjens
Records Officer
Gliding Federation of Australia
Anyone have a phone number for Bruce Tuncks? Off line please.
Mike
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At 08:45 PM 2/10/2016, you wrote:
First 100km task flown autonomously (and all below 4000ft)
A commercial off-the-shelf RnR Products SBXC sailplane was outfitted
as a UAV and performed more than 100 test flights of the ALOFT
algorithm, with a nominal endurance of 3 min after a winchlaunch to
>>Small aircraft really haven't made much progress over the 1946 Beech Bonanza,
>>70 years ago.
David Thurston wrote in Design for Flying, "… it may be safely noted
that private aircraft performance has not experienced any great leap
forward over the past 40 years. Our speeds are where they were
