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Old February 4th 05, 03:34 AM
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I don't know about South America, Europe, Japan, Russia or China.

In the U. S., distance records are set on the east coast. If they
were set with waves, they would be set on the west coast, where all
the really great wave soaring exists.

The U. S. out and back distance record was set by Tom Knauff, out of
PA, in 1983, I believe, and as far as I know, that record still
stands.


On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 03:22:30 GMT, "Mike Rapoport"
wrote:

Actually, distance records are now set with waves and usually in South
America. The current record flights are almost 1500nm.

Mike
MU-2


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Altitude records are set with waves.

Distance records are done with ridge soaring.

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:38:30 GMT, "Mike Rapoport"
wrote:

The distance glider records are now mostly flown in mountain wave
conditions
and well into the flight levels. I've never heard of any distance gliding
record being flown at 400agl.

Mike
MU-2


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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:15:57 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

So, we all know life isn't fair, and Father Death tends to deal random
blows
to all concerned. That said, flying cross-country at 500 AGL, just
because
the view is better, strikes me as tempting fate a wee bit too much.


I think the glider cross country distance record of some 700+ miles,
if I'm not mistaken, was flown at no more than 400' agl or so.