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AcroJam 2011 - first day

by justACRO
13 years ago

The first day of the Acro Jam in Obertraun (Austria) started with a rainy morning and the first briefing at 8'o clock. The weather forecast was promising and around 11 the pilots were sent up to Krippenstein in the hearth of the impressive Dachstein mountain range. Under fully covered sky the first solo run has started with light but managable back-wind.

Superdell flies off the Astoria column in Oregon

by justACRO
13 years ago

Dell Shanze (alias “SuperDell”) performed probably one of the coolest Speed-Wing launches ever but got arrested the next day. He was using a 14m2 Speedmaster from U-Turn, the wind was smooth laminar around 16 km/h.
Catched him on the phone a bit to chat about what actually happened:

AcrOludeniz feelings

by justACRO
13 years ago

A few un-cut and some more edited videos by different pilots from the first Acro World Cup event in 2011.

Hungary ruled the podium in Turkey - AcrOludeniz World Cup

by justACRO
13 years ago
Sunday night the Hungarians ruled the podium on the beach of Ölüdeniz!

Pál Takáts won the first World Cup event of the year 15 points ahead of his team partner Gábor Kézi. For the first time in acro competition history in their last two runs they performed Pál's trademark the newest trick called Esfera.The first woman was Alexandra Grillmayer - also from Hungary - with great clearance from the other girls! All three pilots are flying with U-Turn Thriller. Xandi Meschuh just missed the podium due to a failed Misty Flip so finally Félix Rodriguez came 3rd. Tim Alongi finished 5th, although he even forgot to fly one of his tricks in the first task!

CLICK FOR VIDEOS, FINAL RESULTS, WORLD CUP RANKING HERE

AcrOludeniz World Cup final day: second run completed, final task about to begin!

by justACRO
13 years ago

The second task (that started yesterday already) has been completed and the results were published about an hour ago.

The winners of the second task and the overall TOP3 pilots are:

1st Pál Takáts (overall 1st)
2nd Gábor Kézi (overall 3rd)
3rd Xandi Meschuh (overall 2nd)

The shuttle with the first 15 pilots has already arrived to launch and the final run is just about to begin right now! Now the pilots are allowed to perform any maneuver again so everybody is going for his strongest possible routine!