Cloud Soaring Record on an XT582

William Olive known to his mates and others as Billo has been a consistant visitor to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The attraction to this remote area at the top end of Australia has mainly been the incredible wave cloud phenomena named the “Morning Glory”. The series of roll clouds form when moisture from onshore seabreezes is evident. The rolling wave can be up to 1000 kms(620mi) long. The wave continues it’s journey inland producing lift in front of the cloud. This lift allows pilot’s of all sorts of aircraft the opportunity to “surf” the cloud for miles inland until it …

Magni Brothers Visit

 

Magni/Airborne demo days with the Magni brothers Luca and Pietro Magni from Italy.
Two M24 Orions and one M16 will depart Newcastle on the 13th March and head north taking in:
Ballina airport
Caboolture
Noosa
and will return via:
Dalby
Manilla
Rutherford/Maitland Airport.
There will be a barbeque breakfast at Airborne Upper Hunter hanger Rutherford/Maitland airport on the 16th March and all are welcome..

Demo flights will be available later in the Magni M24 and M16.

For more details contact Russell Duncan at Airborne 02 49 449 199 (0412 630 092)
or RussD@airborne.com.au
The photo shows the Magni factory team …

Magni Gyro at Avalon

 
The Avalon International Airshow is on this weekend and there will be an Airborne XT on the HGFA stand and a Magni M24 Orion at the ASRA stand. The dates 1st 2nd,3rd of March.

The Ultimate Trike

Whether it’s the V-Lite with the F2T wing or the T-Lite with the higher performance Core wing it would be difficult to find a better handling trike. Both machines powered either by the Polini two stoke or the Bailey four stoke engine are a dream to fly. They are also good fun to soar with the engine off in thermal lift.

Famous Australian aviator and avid microlight pilot Dick Smith has been on our case to build him an electric powered V-Lite. We have slowly been researching the viability of the project and you may well see an electric version …

Epic Flight on a Sting 3 168

 On the 12/12/2012 Allan McMillan flew his 3 year old Sting 3 168 from Mount Borah, Manilla (NSW Australia) to Walgett with a dog leg. Interesting to see Allan and his Airborne Sting 3 are coming 3rd in the International contest for hangliders distance comp and 1st in the Australian distance comp. The last time any one flew further than him from Mt Borah that has uploaded a track log was in 2007 in a topless glider, the pilot an Austrian.

You can see Allan’s tracklog here:
http://www.xcontest.org/australia/flights/detail:allanmcmillan/12.12.2012/01:12

It shows a distance of 254.46 kms (158 miles) That’s a great …

Facebook Airborne jacket givaway

The Airborne jacket was won by Rodrigo Brigida of Sao Paulo Brazil. All the people that have visited the Airborne facebook pages and liked us went into the draw. The names were printed off and made into a dart board, which let us throw a dart to pick the winner.

We plan to do the same again in June, so if you want to be in the draw you need to like us on facebook and your name will be added to the dart board. The jacket shown in the above has a large embroidered logo on the back and …

Magni Gyrocopter First Shipment

 The first shipment of Magni Gyrocopters will arrive at Airborne sometime in January. The shipment includes 2 x M24 Orions and 1 x M16. There is one extra space in the container and we believe that slot will be taken shortly.  Our website has been updated to include the Magni range, which includes their open air tandem gyro’s through to the sporty looking fully enclosed M24 Orion pictured. Magni is a world leader in gyroplane design and manufactures it’s range to an extremely high standard. The Orion was the first enclosed Gyro to acheive UK certification as we were the …

2013 World Hang Gliding Championships Forbes NSW

Next year we will have 3 Airborne pilots representing the Australian team in the Hang gliding Worlds. The National ladder position http://thebombout.com/wp-content/uploads/ladders/NationalLadder.htm of these pilots is impressive: Rohan Holkamp in 1st, Scott Barrett in 2nd and Adam Stevens in 4th. Cameron Tunbridge is in 10th place on the ladder.  So 4 gliders in the top 10 in a field dominated by Moyes gliders. Looking at past results, the 2012 Pre-Worlds at Forbes was won by Rohan Hotkamp on the Rev 13.5, Scott Barrett came in 3rd in the same comp with Adam Stevens in 4th place. The results say something …

GULGONG HG COMP

The Airborne Gulgong Classic Hang Gliding Competition 25th November to 1st December. This is the 11th annual event held at the Gulgong Gliding strip. Click the link for more comp details. We will have our V-lite nanolight, an F2, a Sting 154 and 168 and an XT912 with the new Arrow wing out at the field for demo’s by suitably qualified pilots.

F2 In New Zealand

Bill Degen Airborne dealer and “Airborn” Hang Gliding & Paragliding Editor in New Zealand, just replaced the sail on his Fun 190 with a new F2 sail retro fit kit. This virtually turns an old Fun 190 into a new glider. Bill seems to like the result. Read the article on his web site.