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Impressions
from around the Club
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Working together March 09
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Working together March 09
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Working together March 09
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Working together March 09
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Working together March 09
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Working together March 09
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Working together March 09
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Working together March 09
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Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Briefing
in the club house.
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Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Students
awaiting their turn to fly.
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Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Ready to
go...
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Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Let's
aviate!
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Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: Students,
ground crew, instructors...
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Mercedes College visit 27/05/08: ...and
teachers obviously had fun.
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Wave over Balaklava airfield on 20 January
2007. Andrew Horton captured this panorama.
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Surfing the wave over the airfield. Colin
Stauss took this picture with Andrew Horton at the controls of BXC on 20
January 2007.
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Catherine Love didn't quite make it around
a 300km task on 16 September 2006. Lovely setting for an outlanding though...
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Surprise visit from life member Allan
Powell at the 2006 Annual General Meeting, pictured here with club president
Steve Shuck.
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Flinders Ranges Camp 2006: Instructor
Andrew Horton (front) and Roger Cox (rear) ready for launch.
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Flinders Ranges Camp 2006: Instructor John
Wheatcroft (rear) and Tim Hurst (front) ready for launch.
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Colin Stauss is ready for his first flight
in the Mini Numbus, our 15m racing class glider, sent on his way by
instructor Andrew Horton on 26 August 2006.
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Nana celebrated her 90th birthday on 24
June 2006 with her first glider flight. This make her one of our oldest
takers for an Air Experience Flight.
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A pleasant soaring day April 2006: Wal
Mayger ready for launch in his Mini Nimbus VH-IUY into a brilliant sky.
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A pleasant soaring day April 2006:
Balaklava airfield in autumn sun (looking north-west) as seen from Wal
Mayger's IUY.
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Dawn Patrol February 2006: Cockadoodledoo!
John Cheetham gave the wakeup call in fitting attire.
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Dawn Patrol February 2006: First cab off
the rank. Colin Stauss and Andrew Horton.
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Dawn Patrol February 2006: Can't wait to
get off the ground. John Cheetham and John Wheatcroft were next in line.
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Dawn Patrol February 2006: Best Dressed!
Bevan Spencer was obviously in a hurry to get to the airfield in time...
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Dawn Patrol February 2006: His first
passenger flight - Colin Stauss taking sister Jessica for a ride.
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Dawn Patrol February 2006: Ready for some
fun! Joanne Stauss and John Hudson (assisted by Eric Stauss).
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One that didn't quite make it home: After a
flight of almost 350km, VH-WVC, piloted by Grant Hudson, lost the battle
against a strong seabreeze in dieing evening thermals, landing in a paddock
15km from home.
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Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: ASK-21 VH-BXC
landing at the Arkapeena airstrip with the Chace Range in the background.
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Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: Lenticular
clouds over the Arkapeena camp indicating wave generated off the Elder Range.
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Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: Grant Hudson
took this picture of Wilpena Pound on one of his flights in wave.
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Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: Grant Hudson
riding the wave in front of the rotor cloud.
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Flinders Ranges Camp 2005: ASK-21 VH-BXC
captured by Grant Hudson in wave over the Chace Range.
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Don "Wal" Mayger lined up for
take-off into a challenging winter sky.
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ASK-21 VH-BXC flown by Dene Newton and
Bevan Spencer sharing a winter thermal with Gant Hudson in his PIK-20 VH-WVC
over the airfield.
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Working together: Erecting the new club
sign. Bevan Spencer, John Hudson, Dene Newton, Wal Mayger (left to right)
performing one of the winter chores.
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Working together: Dean Hill, Dene Newton,
Steve Shuck, John Wheatcroft, Allan O'Halloran, Roger Cox, Peter Goodale,
Bruno Krapez, John Bradbury and Grant Hudson reroofing the maintenance
hangar.
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Australian Junior National Championships
(JoeyGlide) 2011, Kingaroy, QLD
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Colin Stauss outlanded on day 2 of the competition under an impressive Queensland sky full of promising cumulus clouds.
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What an idyllic outlanding spot!
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Jess Stauss just returned from a very successful coaching flight with Peter Trotter.
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High five with the coach!
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Gridding and getting the gliders ready for day 3 of the competition.
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Eric Stauss is ready for take-off.
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Australian Junior National Championships
(JoeyGlide) 2006, Leeton, NSW
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Colin Stauss ready for launch on day two of
JoeyGlide 2006.
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Eric Stauss ready for a coaching flight
with 4 times World and several times National Champion Ingo Renner.
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The BGC JoeyGlide06 crew.
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The South Australian Junior Soaring Team.
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Some
of our Solo Pilots
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James Francis after his first solo flight
on May 6, 2007.
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Eric Stauss, 15, before his first solo
flight on January 8, 2006.
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James Kingham went on his first solo flight
on August 28, 2005.
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Bob Watson after his first solo on January
24, 2004.
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Matt Colwell sent off for his first solo
flight by instructor Andrew Horton on January 18, 2004.
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Colin Stauss after his first solo flight on
July 26, 2003, shortly after his 15th birthday.
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