GORDON BENNETT: THE PICTURES

And here they are, our pictures from the 69th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett in Gladbeck!

The weather around the race has been really challenging this year – hats off to competition director David Strasmann who believed in the launch even when noone else did. While our flight towards the Polish-Lithuanian border was quite successful and went absolutely according to plan, Lithuania proved to be another challenge, with the airspace of Kaunas forcing us to divert from our planned trajectory and thus causing an early landing for us.

We can’t really say that we’re satisfied with our 10th place… nevertheless, we had a nice flight with a lot less problems than anticipated, we landed safely and nothing got broken or even dirty. So, after all, we have learned our lessons and of course we congratulate the new world champions Balthasar Wicki and Rene Erni on their outstanding flight to Finland!