2021 1-26 Championships & Low Performance Contest

12/01/2021

Jim Clark (R) flew the L-33 in the Low Performance Contest and today he earned his CFI-G!

08/01/2021

Amir did a lot of towing during the contest, but today he upgraded his glider rating!

Congrats Amir on earning his Commercial Glider cert today!

07/23/2021

CD Tony and Champion Dan reunite at an unidentified bar in Northwest Iowa!

07/08/2021

Here is the final cut of the drone footage by Quinn Agnew! Audio starts about 15 seconds into it.

I recently went to the 1-26 Championship out in Kansas to crew for my Dad. I brought my drone and got some cool footage of the gliders and put together this...

07/06/2021

The weather is always best before and after a contest...Jerry made an awesome triangle in his Duster yesterday!

OLC (248.85 km - 456.42 pt - 45.99 km/h)

07/03/2021

Most Contestants are well on their way home. Judith (157) and Kristin (400) hung back to fly yesterday. Both headed west and made it far enough to qualify for Silver Distance! That makes four pilot who earned Silver while in Kansas. Colten Coughlin and Jason Cottingham were the other two.

07/02/2021

Brunch and Awards!

07/02/2021

Paul's Contest Slideshow

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdD64gtlDU

07/02/2021

Evening Entertainment: Bucket Hat and the Lightning Rods!

07/02/2021

1-26 Winners:

Team 2nd: Jeff Daye/Charles Cook
Team 1st: Bob Hurni/Ron Schwartz

Individual 3rd: Curt Lewis
Individual 2nd: Jim Bob Slocum
Individual 1st: Dan Nezgoda

07/01/2021

As of 1:30 PM, Cloudbase was still below 2000agl and lift was too weak for the radian R/C glider to soar. Day cancelled, contest over. Banquet tonight at Soaring Center, brunch tomorrow at Carriage Crossing.

07/01/2021

Photo shoot yesterday...