LAK High Performance Sailplanes

* LAK-17A  15 - 18 meter racer
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NEWS: Black Forest Soaring Society pilots, one of them flying a LAK-17AT sailplane made an excellent showing at the U.S. Region 9 Contest in Parowan.  "In 18 meter, Clay Thomas in a LAK 17AT, VH, moved into first place overall with a winning speed of 95.1 MPH!!! On Day 4 Clay won the 18 m class in the LAK-17AT and Rick won the 15 m class while Dave moved up to 2nd over all.  They were smoking!"

LAK17A finished 1st, 2nd, and 3rd at the 2003 World Gliding Championships, Day 12. Henrik Breidahl of Denmark placed first, Uys Jonker of South Africa second, and Riccardo Brigliadori of Italy third in the 18 Meter Class. They flew 472.6 km (293.7 miles) and finished with the respective speeds of 121.1 km/h (75.3 mph), 118.1 km/h (73.4 mph) and 117.8 km/h (73.2 mph). Other great achievements during the contest by the LAK17A racers were by Vitautas Sabeckis of Lithuania who won on Day 5 and was second on Day 6, by Bostjan Pristavec of Slovenia who placed 4th on Day 7 and by Riccardo Brigliadori of Italy who was 3rd on Day 10. Overall, in the cummulative standings, Riccardo Brigliadori of Italy placed 5th after 12 days of racing in a field of 23 contestants.


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