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U.S. Soaring Team Day
Reports & Results

2005 4th FAI Junior
World Gliding Championships
Husbands Bosworth, United Kingdom, August 6-20, 2005

Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Preparation
The US Junior team is ready to travel to the UK

REPORTS

LATEST

AUG 3
Arrival

AUG 4

AUG 5

AUG 6
Day 1

AUG 7

AUG 8

AUG 9

AUG 10

AUG 11

AUG 12

AUG 13

AUG 14

AUG 15

AUG 16

AUG 17

AUG 18

AUG 19

AUG 20
Closing

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SCHEDULE

Unofficial training
30th July - 2nd

Registration
3rd - 5th

Official training
3rd

Official Team
Captains 4th

Civic Reception
5th August

Opening
6th August

Contest 6-19
August 2005

Farewell party
19th August

Closing
20th August

NEWS BRIEF - July 19, 2005

Hello Race Fans!

There are 62 confirmed competitors from 17 countries in two classes for the 4th Junior World Gliding Championships.

Mike Westbrook will depart for the UK on July 25 and meet up with his crew Ryan Vihlen. Ryan is nineteen, a Kolstad winner from 2003, has his Gold badge and flies a Libelle. He attended the junior camp this year in Moriarty and Harris Hill and flew the Region 3 championship. Mike will be flying an ASW-28 owned by Chris Luton made possible through Doug Jacobs offer of his LS-8 in return for anyone with a ship Mike could fly at the Junior WGC.

Garret Willat will be departing on July 21 for the UK. Richard Browne generously offered his LS8 for Garret to fly and in return he is flying Garret's Discus 2a in Uvalde at the 15 meter nationals.

Team Captain Bob Leve will be arriving on the 28th to pick up cars and start arranging the team program. Through George Moffat and Mike Bird a local expert has agreed to help the Juniors. His name is Adrian Hatten and he flies at HusBos and is a competition pilot with 3500 hours. He is also the backup weather man for the contest.

Team Reporting
This year Frank Whiteley will be posting the Junior team coverage supplied by Team Captain Bob Leve and others to this team web page. Bob will send reports from the flight line in the UK to Frank in Colorado who will do the posting here. So bookmark this site and check back as the site id updated. See the Junior Team web page here and the WGC official site here.

Captions for photos: From top to bottom: 1. Junior Team pilots Mike Westbrook and Garret Willat About the pictures. Images are taken by the U.S. Team Captain and other U.S. Team Members. Some of the images used here can be found on the official website and were taken by one of several excellent contributors.
U.S. Soaring Team Standings
Class	Pilot	Sailplane	Contest Number	Day Place & Points	Overall Place & Points
Junior	Garret Willat	LS-8 18	L58
Junior	Mike Westbrook	ASW-28	C6
				See the official scores here
Points of Interest
ABOUT DAY REPORTS The U.S. Team Day Reports are brought to you by the US Soaring Team and hard working volunteer Frank Whiteley. Thank you Frank!
YOUR TEAM SUPPORT All US team members would like to thank those of you who have contributed to make participation in these international events possible. If you have not contributed to the team please consider making one! To see how, visit the U.S. Team Funding page here and the Robertson Trust Web here.
U.S. TEAM COMMITTEE The U.S. Team Committee has been working to establish a more stable management structure and better resources for our soaring teams. The objective are more transparent, accountable, sustainable and competitive United States soaring teams. See the full information on the new U.S. Team Committee here.
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TEAM NEWS, HISTORY & ARCHIVE To catch up on all the news for the U.S. World Soaring Teams see the U.S. Team News. See the U.S. Team Archive for team background since 1950. As part of the Archive tour see the U.S. Team History page for a complete listing of US Teams since 1950 or the World Champions page for a complete listing of champions since 1937.
2005 Junior Team Sponsors & Helpers

The Junior Team would like to thank their sponsors who are providing products for the team's use.

Roy McMaster, as the US distributor for SeeYou, the flight planning, analysis and in-flight software is personally is sponsoring copies of SeeYou for the Junior Team. Contact Roy directly via email by clicking here.

Kevin Brooker of Peetot Pants is supplying the team uniforms and several pairs of his innovative pants. See Kevin's web site for more on these pants that allow you to watch your P's and Cu's here.

Many thanks to the Jaguar and Land Rover Engineering teams in England for arranging crew vehicles for the US Junior team. This went a long way toward helping the junior team finances.

Country and Contest Site

In 2005, The Soaring Centre, in association with the BGA, will be hosting the 5th Junior World Gliding Championships. This will be the first International gliding championships to be held in the UK in over a generation. The Soaring Centre, has with 400 members and a large fleet of modern glassfibre sailplanes.

Situated in the heart of the Midlands, the airfield is only 3 miles from the major motorway networks, and 1/2 mile from Husbands Bosworth village, making access easy from any part of the country.