Mittwoch, 17. September 2014

Entschuldigung! I am sorry

Wegen einer "Person im Gleis" *) vor dem ICE hatte ich eine chaotische Rückfahrt und konnte diesen Bericht nicht mehr am Dienstag vollenden. Dies soll am Mittwoch und Donnerstag geschehen.

The blog will be completed on Wednesday & Thursday. - A person tried to kill itsself and stopped my train ...

Rudolf H. Böttcher

*) Sie kam nicht zu Schaden, aber die Verspätungen und Folgen etc. war erheblich.


Sonntag, 14. September 2014

1st Women's Hot Air Balloon World Championship 2014


The Price Giving Ceremony

Here are the Champions:

Nicola Scaife, Australia, 1st World Champion
Elisabeth Kindermann, Austria, Silver Medal
Agne Simonaviciute, Lithuania, Bronce Medal

The Champions 2014
Rank 1 - 10

Best Balloon Team of 1st Women's

Lithuania 
a small nation, but rather big in ballooning!
eine kleine Nation, aber wirklich groß im Ballonsport!


Agne Simonaviciute, Bronce Medal
Daiva Rakauskaite, rank 6
Kristina Sunaitiene, rank 16
Rita Naujaliene, rank 18



MORE PHOTOS, YOUTUBE-CLIPS & LINKS TO FOLLOW.

Samstag, 13. September 2014

Winners and Teams - A Foggy Day

Day 5, No Flight

 [Task Data Sheet Flight 6]

First Women's 
Worldchampion
Nicola Scaife
Australia
12 489 points

Second
Elisabeth Kindermann
Austria
12 401 points

Third
Agne Simonaviciute
Lithuania
11 362 ponits

Fourth
Dolly Deimling
Germany
10 881 points

Konkurrentinnen, die in der Mannschaft zusammenarbeiten:
Elise Kloss (links) und Dolly Deimling


Fifth
Elise Kloss
Germany
10 837 points

Sixth
Daiva Rakauskaite
Lithuania
10 647 points

The Team of Our Hearts
Poland


MORE PHOTOS, YOUTUBE-CLIPS & LINKS TO FOLLOW.





A Fantastic Evening with Mroz in Dolsk

Day 4, Flight 5
Tag 4, Fahrt 5

Winners of the Day: Ann & Agne












More Photos to Follow!


Freitag, 12. September 2014

Cancelation of morning briefing - Results

Day 4 - No morning Flight.

11.37  Balloon Drying in the Sun

Please learn a Polish word: "Słońce". It's the SUN, - difficult to pronounce, but she is back!

The Polish PUCHASZ sailplane - I will tell more ...
Tyskie Beer Balloon Extra Dry
Beata Choma

Television and TravelPhoto.pl


Kelly Cook, USA

Auch Sylvia Meinl muss die Hülle trocknen ...

Five hours earlier ...

6:37



A grey morning at the Leszno Airfield. 


Results



6.33 - Do you want to fly?

There is a FreeFlyCenter - Wind Tunnel Leszno at the airfield.
More information on: www.TuSieLata.pl.

A grey and wet morning
the wind tunnel in the background ...

Donnerstag, 11. September 2014

Hot Air Balloon Sport in the Rain

Day 3, Flight 4 / Tag 3, Fahrt 4:

A day with 5 tasks on the data sheet - the rain started at the end of the first task.
Hot Air Balloon Sport in the Rain. - All pilots landed safely, but there had been failures at the electronic equipment.

The Event Director decided to cancel all tasks of this flight for safety reasons:
[Cancelation of all tasks in flight 4 (pdf)]

Elisabeth Kindermann (Austria) did an excellent job, she finished all the tasks with good results. After her complaint and protest, the Jury decided: "The Jury requires the Event Director to score the tasks in Flight 4." Elisabeth Kindermann, has been first in Task 14 (Fly On) and might be Winner of Flight 4.
[Complaint & Protest and Jury Decision]

Susan Stamats, USA,best in Minimum Double Drop
Nicola Scaife (Australia) is also a goddess in 3 dimensions - she flew the best donut (Task 13).
Susan Stamats (USA) made the best Minimum Double Drop; this task was solved only by Her, Sanne, Lindsay and Rita from Hungary (Task 10).

Waltzing Germany: The best Hesitation Waltz' was shown by Sylvia Meinl (Sindelfingen) and Dolly Deimling (Frankenthal), who is now ranking third (Task 12 & Task 11).

Three Polish pilots are close together now: Ewa Prawicka (rank 13), Daria Dudkiewicz (rank 14) and Beata Choma (rank 15).

September Nine - Eleven:
In Leszno is taking place a peaceful contest between American and Russian ladies. - The American team had been so kind to offer nine competition maps to the pilots, who lost their maps due to the rain. - Thank you.

Julia Seleznava, Russia (Tula Region) - left)
Meg Skelton, USA (Curves)
Maria Sadkovskaya, Russia (aeronavt)

Nicola Scaife (left) and Elisabeth Kindermann (right) are leading
 in the ranking, will Lindsay Muir attack today?

Beata Choma, today the Polish Elevator
Balloon: Kubicek Tyskie, SP-BEA

[Task Data Sheet Flight 4] (pdf.)

Results in the following posts are updated (3 flights, 9 tasks only).

Nightglow at the Speedway Stadium - Ballonglühen

Better than any words:









The nightglow was taking place in the Speedway Stadium of Leszno.
Das Ballonglühen fand im Speedway Stadion von Leszno statt.

1st FAI Women's Hot Air Balloon World Championship
Leszno 2014, Poland


© Text & Fotos:  Rudolf H. Boettcher