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Information Dear Sir, I have a big pleasure to inform all of you about new information service created at http://www.soaring.lt. We are going to prepare information pages on our site and may be to establish a mailing list. Your questions and comments in the forum will help us to better understand what kind of information we should prepare. Please also note this is not an official site but we often comunicate with organisational committee of WWSC and with Vytautas Sabeckis Director of Championships as well.Best regards Arunas Zalnierius Webmaster SOARING.LT webmaster@soaring.lt
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Record Ratified Dear Sir, On the 5th of January 2001 the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) homologated the world record set by British pilot Mark Hayman and passenger Nicky Watts on the 14th August 2000 at Annecy in France The new world record is for speed round a 25km FAI Triangle O-3 Multiplace (Tandem paraglider) which now appears on the FAI website at www.fai.org/hang_gliding/records/data_o.asp?id=9 A pleasant surprise for Mark was that the speed was higher than expected as he used the wrong formula when he originally registered the record, claiming 22.39km/h. The FAI, using the correct formula, have calculated the speed as 24.31km/h, beating the old world record by over 20%. Mark would like to thank Bill Morris of BHPA records, Irwyn Jehu (official
observer) and all the team at the FAI for all their hard work and time
devoted to ensuring the success of the record claim. Thanks also to
Nicky (long suffering passenger and girlfriend) and to APCO paragliders
who supplied such a speedy glider for our use.
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| OTHER ARTICLES OF ASI FEBRUARY
2001 ISSUE From The Secretary General's Desk | Air Waves | | News In Brief | Letters To The Editor | World Records | | 1st World Gliding Club Class Championship | | World Parachuting Championships in Accuracy | | FAI World Grand Prix of Aviation | | Bright Paragliding Open Australia | |