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From: rmiller@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: World Soaring Championships, Final - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 19-Jul-83 22:54:37 EDT
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ccvaxa!rmiller    Jul 18 22:01:00 1983

correction: Eric Mozer was 5th in the standard class, not 4th.
remember that the weather at Hobbs was very homogenous over the contest.
the reason the Ls-4A (standard class) and the Nimbus 3 (open class)
cleaned up was because there wing loadings were higher then the
competition. in weak weather, it would have been a toss up between the
Ls-4A and the DG-300 and also between the Nimbus 3 and the AS-W 22.
believe me, Tommy Beltz has absolutely nothing to be broken hearted
about, that 9 point loss was due to a 10 point penalty back in the
middle of the contest.
but also belive me when i say that there was NO ONE IN THE WORLD who
could touch Ingo Renner of Australia in the open class! he was 216
points from a perfect contest and gave up over half of that by being
safe and starting early on the last day (when he had over a 650 point
lead on Bruno Gantenbrink of West Germany). the only time anyone has
EVER seen a more impressive piece of flying was when Renner won ALL 8
days of the Australian Nationals last year!
The only reason he did not do it at Hobbs were people like George Lee of
England (112 MPH on day 4 on a 350 mile triangle) and Bruno Gantenbrink
who both claimed they were flying as well as they ever had!
Richard J. Miller
Scorer, 18th World Soaring Championships
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