08..09.2009 19:00 loc (tuesday): What a day!
Thanks to these brave pilots, we on the surface could enjoy an exciting race on the screens wherever we are on the world.
The Coupe Aéronautique is approaching its end. 6 teams are still flying. All these teams have achieved a distance of more than 1.000 kms straight line from their launch-point in Geneva. One crew is watching the other. The US team Mark Sullivan / Cheryl White is in the lead. They are very close to the cost, almost at the Spanish/Portugese border, on final approach for Faro-airport? Who knows?
The teams now need to check their speed versus the remaining distanced to the ocean or consider a night landing. We cross our fingers for a safe ending to the race.
Though, we would not be surprised for teams to enter the fourth (4!!!) night.
USA 3 (Cayton / Canders) finished their flight in Spain
We just (19:30 loc / 1730 UTC) received the confirmation about the landing of pilots Andy Cayton and Sam Canders. In almost 68 hours these two pilots flew about 1300 km straight-line distance from Geneva to the NW of Cordoba to the little village of Los Panchez.
Credits http://www.ballon.eu/2009_coupe_eboard.html
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