Two microlight pilots have left Argentina on an ambitious journey through three continents to Australia. Mike Blyth (SA) and Olivier Aubert (CH) are flying from the southern tip of Argentina, up the west coast of south America and North America, before crossing the Baring Straits between Alaska and Russia. They then continue down through Asia […]

Breitling Orbiter 3 : Round the world balloon flight completed
The log book
11:00 GMT: The Breitling Orbiter 3, at 09h54 (GMT) hours passed the ” finishing line ” of 9.27° over Mauritania, North Africa, completing their ” round the world balloon trip “.
Bertrand Piccard and Brian jones have now become the first balloonists to circumnavigate […]

New Zealand National Championships
Manilla, New South Wales (27th Feb. to 6th March)
The New Zealand Open Championships kicked off under a threatening
sky, with over development on course and rain close by. This
didn‚t prevent the bold and the best from completing the 101 Km.
race to goal, but less confident of the 93 pilots scurried away
to […]

Felix Ruehle, previously of Pegasus and Flight Design, revealed his new ATOS design at the Thermik show, Germany, in December. Felix recently left Flight Design, where he developed the revolutionary Exxtacy, to form his own company; AIR. He will be working in close collaboration with Icaro in the production and distribution of his new wing. […]

Many visitors to the outback of Australia say we Aussies have some strange ways of doing things. One classic is measuring distance not by kms or time but by six-packs of beer; “From here to Goondiwindi, umm, orr, I guess thatÂ’ll be a 2 six-pack trip!” and so on. A few years ago I was […]

PILOTS SPEAK TO THE WORLD ABOUT THE LANDING
Sun Mar 7 11:49:45 1999 GMT
Shortly after being rescued off the south west coast of Japan, Andy and Colin spoke via telephone to Flight Director, Ian Ashpole in London live into the press conference. This is a transcript of their conversation:
“Welcome to the press conference for the […]