Albuquerque Soaring Club
| Author | Message |
|---|---|
| resor 2009-06-03 20:24:11 |
From Cliff Hilty: Brian, Please post to the Website for me. Thanks Well Alby is in Elpaso. We attempted to fly Alby from Prescott to Moriarty last Friday, but a early morning blow out from a T-storm over Prescott delayed my departure til 2:35pm and any chance of making it to Moriarty. Instead I flew it down to the Mexican border and back to El Tiro in Tucson. 2NO then took Alby to El Paso on Sunday. I mention all of this to see if any of you guys would be interested in moving him on towards Moriarty, Alamogordo or Hobbs. I got the impression that there is no one currently at El Paso that is capable or willing to do so. A great bunch of guys but mostly club planes and I didn't see many trailers there. We left Alby with John Hardy who lives there on the Airport right next to the Clubs Hangar and is a very active in the club. I got the impression that they could supply a tow if someone were to fly down and wanted to fly back or on to Hobbs. Anyway wouldn't want to see Alby get stalled in Texas. |
| hudsonb 2009-06-03 07:08:31 |
When this started I wrote to them and said that if they could get Alby to Moriarty we could get it to Hobbs. Now they decided to get it to El Paso instead, and I think thats too far away to expect someone to pack up and go down there, when you consider that there are gliders there and at Almagordo. It would be good publicity but it is pretty close to our Taos outing to dispatch someone south. Just my thoughts. |
| banks 2009-06-02 19:53:15 |
Latest message from Sergio, Alby's super ego. Somehow Alby has to get from El Paso to Hobbs. By air. In a glider. Any volunteers, suggestions, proposals, send to Sergio via Alby's web site. h ------------ I am sending this mail to Howard Banks for the Moriarty pilots, to several pilots in El Paso and several pilots in Alamogordo, and to Ted and Cliff in Arizona. Arizona and Moriarty pilots are experienced, El Paso and Alamogordo are less experienced in regards to accomplishing this task, which is to take Alby to Hobbs. My first idea would be to take Alby from El Paso to Alamogordo, because Alamogordo is a little closer to Hobbs. Also, this would give the opportunity to participate to the Alamogordo pilots. Also, this would be less travel for a Moriarty pilot who would like to trailer down to Alamogordo. However, I do not know the difficulties of terrain and weather. I would like to remind that according to the rules of the Voyage, it is not mandatory to make one leg in one flight. The rules say that a pilot can reserve a whole week for a tentative, and can land and start again from the same place where he landed, until the leg is completed. This was done in anticipation of just this kind of situation where pilots of limited experience and limited performance glider, but with intrepid spirit of adventure, would like to participate to this voyage. So I would encourage El Paso and Alamogordo pilots to go for it. You can be part of a soaring event that will be remembered for many years, have your name and your glider club name in the history of this journey, and have a pin to show for this enterprise (remember pins are individually numbered). Besides this invitation to the pilots of the interested gliding sites, I am asking to everybody what do they think and propose to make Alby progress forward. Please each of you come forward with a proposal, we will discuss it and come out with a good plan. Always CC to |
| resor 2009-06-01 09:33:43 |
Alby is in El Paso now. |
| hudsonm 2009-05-18 07:57:13 |
Seems like we should fly it to Hobbs... It should get there, and then can go to Marfa, Austin, etc... |
| resor 2009-05-14 21:25:23 |
From an email: Dear Soaring Club, I am one of the organizers of the Alby's Voyage, which was featured in the article published in the number of September of the Soaring magazine. The article describes the story of Alby, a young, adventurous albatross wishing to explore beyond the ocean waters and fly on land, an environment unfamiliar to him. Glider pilots understand his desire and satisfy his aspiration by taking him in a succession of glider flights from the Pacific Ocean all the way to the Atlantic. A bronze sculpture represents Alby and its spirit. We are now organizing this succession of flights. If your club has pilots interested in flying with Alby, please let us know. A flight can be done that takes Alby from your site to another. A flight can also be done to take Alby from another gliding site to yours. From a series of contacts with various gliding sites along the route, we will create a network of possible flight legs that Alby may fly to reach his destination. We are contacting you because your site is on the path that Alby will follow, from California through Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas etc. to somewhere in the Atlantic coast. Please find the Story and the Rules on the website at http://albysvoyage.blogspot.com/ or, type "Alby's Voyage" in the address bar. We will be very happy to have your club be part of this soaring adventure. The leg you may be interested to is from Alamogordo to Hobbs, NM. If some of your pilots would like to make this flight, you can proudly host Alby in your gliderport. Your site will appear in the map of the trip, the pilot's name will be recorded in Alby's log book and he can wear the commemorative pin (each pin is numbered). Albymaster -- Sergio Colacevich |