Marfa Soaring article, photos, maps, historic articles

September's Soaring includes the Marfa Report 2004 article that we
wrote. There were more photos than could be included in the magazine,
and we also came across the historic articles that detail the big races
held there years ago. Feel free to download the PDFs - these make good
reading.

1969 National Championship Marfa
see also 1969 National Soaring Championship Tasks

1970 World Soaring Championship

1972 Standard Class National Championship Marfa


There are also preplanned tasks for Marfa for Records and FAI Badges in
pdf format.

see
http://www.chilhowee.com/marfa.htm


I'd encourage other pilots to go visit Marfa, it offers awesome soaring
weather and great beauty too. These articles from the old races got me
real nervous about flying there, but since we were not competing for a
world championship we did not feel pressured to take big chances like
they did 35 years ago. [In the Sunship Game it appears almost as they
are unaware of the dangers of dehydration and maybe hypoxia too].
Burt can guide new pilots on the local area and it does not have to be
intimidating at all.

regards,
Chris