2000km Distance Flight Underway Now (USA)

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/f...xei0EDRpqb 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

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/f...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

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/f...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!

outstanding!

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.

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

WOW!
Way to go Gordon & Hugh.

Mike Koerner

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

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 he

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/Boett...r_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 he

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

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 he

*http://dl.dropbox.com/u/463771/Boett...r_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 he

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