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THE GLIDING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
SA Flyer Magazine
|September 2022
South Africa produced an outstanding all-round performance at the 37th FAI World Gliding Championships, held in Szeged, Hungary in August.
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THE WORLD Gliding Championships produced an outstanding standard of flying. Writing from Hungary, Jason Adriaan reports that, "The level of flying here is on another level totally, the smallest mistake drops you down 10 or 20 places, and to make this up is almost impossible, as the other pilots just don't make mistakes. So hats off to our pilots for keeping up to the pace and doing so well."
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