Silver Distance

1-26.
All three legs.
With a distance penalty no less (no kidding!).

Graham Hodgson wrote:

What aircraft did you do your silver distance qualifying
50k flight in?

Ka-6e. And when I am about to land out, I always wish I was back in it!
It climbed so well in weak lift, landed slowly, and had powerful
terminal velocity dive brakes.

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

1-26 in Washington State @ 15 years old.

Graham Hodgson wrote:
What aircraft did you do your silver distance qualifying
50k flight in?

Annebula. A 15 meter homebuilt with a Stan Hall Cherokee fuselage and
a new wing. Built by my dad. Flown by him and all three of his sons
on various badges up to and including all three Diamond legs. From
Kansas.

Altitude was in a TG-3A. Duration in a Slinsgby Swallow. So far,
each badge has had each leg in a different sailplane. What to use for
the Diamond altitude....

Steve Leonard

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What aircraft did you do your silver distance qualifying
50k flight in?



Astir CS 77

Robin
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Robin Birch

Grob 102 Astir, same one as Vorsanger/Charles I'll hazard a guess.

If I remember correctly I got 'down' to 4000 ' AGL at about the midpoint and
wasn't sure I was going to make it. I think I took about 20 thermals to do
it too. I do remember the run back from the TP ( it was an out and return
totaling 100km )
I got under a cloud street and in spite of flying straight and flat out I
got back home higher than I had turned the TP. Took all of 20 minutes to
get back after nearly 2 hours to get out there.

Ian





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50k flight in?


ASK 18. Dunstable to Husbands Bosworth. Up the M1 and turn right at Jct
19. Two thermals, 1hr 37mins. 13 years after getting the five hours. My
714th aerotow (too much instructing!!).

Alistair Wright

Alistair Wright wrote:
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What aircraft did you do your silver distance qualifying
50k flight in?
ASK 18. Dunstable to Husbands Bosworth. Up the M1 and turn right at Jct

K18 here too !!! on may 21, 1988. Parham to Lasham. Had to be
towed some 10 km in the other direction first (Washington
roundabout) to make it 50k and nearly managed to land out
coming back from there, before setting off on the task.
Ended up getting the height gain and duration on the same
flight.
CV

Graham Hodgson wrote:

What aircraft did you do your silver distance qualifying
50k flight in?

I'm tempted to claim I've forgotten.

Actually it was a Skylark 2.

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The real name on the left is richard

Schweizer1-26 from what was then Henderson Sky Harbor, NV, to Searchlight,
NV. I arrived with only 10,000 feet to spare. I'm a little bit
conservative.


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