Soaring in the Dolomites

Sitting for the last time at the controls of a glider some 43 years ago, I had a chance to perform a revival-flight on July 05, 2008 together with Georg Tschager of the "Fieseler Group", Bolzano, in his great Caproni Calif A-21S. A unique side-by-side double seater. What seemed to be a downdraft after release turned out to become a 3 1/2 hours distance flight. However, despite the fact that we finally found thermal uplift with vertical speeds of > 5 m/Sek. (!) it was hard work to repeatedly climb to altitudes of more than 3'600 m to cross the mountain ridges.

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Our track flown (start is not correctly shown at LIPB, because recording started in flight).

 

 

 

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Background Music: Coro Dolomiti di Trento - La Montanara

 

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