2000km Distance Flight Underway Now (USA)

[Kemp[_2_]]

As of 3:30p, Gordon Boettger and Hugh Bennett flying a Duo Discus, are
on the third leg entering the Owens Valley.. Conditions are, as they
say in the meteorology world, SCREAMIN', as they've been at max speed
speed most of the time. Follow the flight on the spot page:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=03HUTo6Od46uQFF0Ar3xVxei0EDRpqb 3q

There was a bit of a hiccup at Mono Lake on the 2nd leg, but they got
past that. Target landing is at least Winnemucca for about 2100km,
but with extra luck they can hit McDermitt for 2300km or so.

Kemp

[Paul Cordell]

On Apr 20, 3:37*pm, Kemp > wrote:
> As of 3:30p, Gordon Boettger and Hugh Bennett flying a Duo Discus, are
> on the third leg entering the Owens Valley.. Conditions are, as they
> say in the meteorology world, SCREAMIN', as they've been at max speed
> speed most of the time. *Follow the flight on the spot page:
>
> http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=03HUTo6Od....
>
> There was a bit of a hiccup at Mono Lake on the 2nd leg, but they got
> past that. *Target landing is at least Winnemucca for about 2100km,
> but with extra luck they can hit McDermitt for 2300km or so.
>
> Kemp

Looks like a good Thermal day too

http://www.gbuapcd.org/dustcam.htm

[Kemp[_2_]]

On Apr 20, 4:03*pm, Paul Cordell > wrote:
> On Apr 20, 3:37*pm, Kemp > wrote:
>
> > As of 3:30p, Gordon Boettger and Hugh Bennett flying a Duo Discus, are
> > on the third leg entering the Owens Valley.. Conditions are, as they
> > say in the meteorology world, SCREAMIN', as they've been at max speed
> > speed most of the time. *Follow the flight on the spot page:
>
> >http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=03HUTo6Od....
>
> > There was a bit of a hiccup at Mono Lake on the 2nd leg, but they got
> > past that. *Target landing is at least Winnemucca for about 2100km,
> > but with extra luck they can hit McDermitt for 2300km or so.
>
> > Kemp
>
> Looks like a good Thermal day too
>
> http://www.gbuapcd.org/dustcam.htm

Yes, but only the cu in the WAY distance!

[Tony[_5_]]

outstanding!

[Kemp[_2_]]

On Apr 20, 6:59*pm, Tony > wrote:
> outstanding!

Gordon and Hugh are down safely at Winnemucca Airport. I've called
the FBO, Buster, and he's on his way out. Rick Walters is just
arriving now too.

[Tuno]

Unbuckingfelievable!!!

That was an incredible achievement, and a superlative soaring
achievement. Gordon and Hugh, I salute you.

Consider that 2100km is farther than the summed assigned task
distances of an entire regional contest!

Numbed

tuN7o

[[email protected]]

WOW!
Way to go Gordon & Hugh.

Mike Koerner

[Darryl Ramm]

On Apr 20, 8:07*pm, Kemp > wrote:
> On Apr 20, 6:59*pm, Tony > wrote:
>
> > outstanding!
>
> Gordon and Hugh are down safely at Winnemucca Airport. *I've called
> the FBO, Buster, and he's on his way out. *Rick Walters is just
> arriving now too.

The big dogs just barked. Very impressive guys.

Darryl

[WaltWX]

Fantastic flight... Congratulations Gordon and Hugh.. !!

Kempton alerted me around 3:30pm so I watched in awe the SPOT tracks
all the way to sunset.

Also captured some upper air charts, raobs and satellite photos. They
are all zipped up at around 9.8MB here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/Boettger_2200km_Weather_20110420.zip


The satellite photos start around 2100Z or 2pm PDT and continue to
sunset. All of them are in the zipped file every 15 minutes for two
regions; one centered on Reno and the other Las Vegas. Converted them
to a 1fps video here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_RNO_20110420.flv

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_LAS_20110420.flv

Amazing mountain wave clouds along practically the entire flight..

Walt Rogers, WX

[WaltWX]

On Apr 22, 12:28*am, WaltWX > wrote:
> Fantastic flight... Congratulations Gordon and Hugh.. *!!
>
> Kempton alerted me around 3:30pm so I watched in awe the SPOT tracks
> all the way to sunset.
>
> Also captured some upper air charts, raobs and satellite photos. They
> are all zipped up at around 9.8MB here:
>
> *http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/Boettger_2200km_Weather_20110420.zip
>
> The satellite photos start around 2100Z or 2pm PDT and continue to
> sunset. All of them are in the zipped file every 15 minutes for two
> regions; one centered on Reno and the other Las Vegas. Converted them
> to a 1fps video here:
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_RNO_20110420.flv
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_LAS_20110420.flv
>
> Amazing mountain wave clouds along practically the entire flight..
>
> Walt Rogers, WX

Try these two video files if you can't view *.flv:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_RNO_20110420.mp4

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_LAS_20110420.mp4

Walt, WX

[Kemp[_2_]]

On Apr 22, 12:56*am, WaltWX > wrote:
> On Apr 22, 12:28*am, WaltWX > wrote:
>
>
>
> > Fantastic flight... Congratulations Gordon and Hugh.. *!!
>
> > Kempton alerted me around 3:30pm so I watched in awe the SPOT tracks
> > all the way to sunset.
>
> > Also captured some upper air charts, raobs and satellite photos. They
> > are all zipped up at around 9.8MB here:
>
> > *http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/Boettger_2200km_Weather_20110420.zip
>
> > The satellite photos start around 2100Z or 2pm PDT and continue to
> > sunset. All of them are in the zipped file every 15 minutes for two
> > regions; one centered on Reno and the other Las Vegas. Converted them
> > to a 1fps video here:
>
> >http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_RNO_20110420.flv
>
> >http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_LAS_20110420.flv
>
> > Amazing mountain wave clouds along practically the entire flight..
>
> > Walt Rogers, WX
>
> Try these two video files if you can't view *.flv:
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_RNO_20110420.mp4
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/VIS1KM_LAS_20110420.mp4
>
> Walt, WX

Thanks Walt, I was also capturing the dustcams at Mono & Owens Lake.
Lots of good material for the documentary. Tom Serkowski's too.

Another good reason to mark your calendar for Feb 2-4 to attend the
SSA Convention in Reno this winter. This will be a super
presentation!

Kemp

[Pat Russell[_2_]]

On Apr 22, 3:28*am, WaltWX > wrote:
>
> Kempton alerted me around 3:30pm so I watched in awe the SPOT tracks
> all the way to sunset.
>

Did you watch them after sunset?