Club Class: Boyd Willat and Mike Westbrook
Standard Class: Bif Huss and Jim Lee
15m Class: Fernando Silva and Tim Taylor
Team Captain: Collin Mead
18-Meter, Open, and 20-Meter 2-place classes: July 28 – August 11, 2018 in Pribram, Czech Republic
18m Class: Bob Fletcher and Erik Nelson
Open Class: Mike Robison and Dave Coggins
20m 2-place: Heinz Weissenbuehler
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35th WGC 2018
Heinz Weissenbuehler
Heinz Weissenbuehler (57) started flying gliders at the age of 14 as a Junior on Harris Hill, Elmira, NY. Since then, he has accumulated more than 5000...
David Coggins
David Coggins was introduced to soaring in December 1981 and joined the Greater Houston Soaring Association (formerly Houston Soaring Association) and the SSA in January 1982. After...
Mike Robison
Mike soloed in gliders in 1997 from Ridge Soaring Gliderport at the age of 18. A Kolstad award winner, he holds a Gold badge with two Diamonds....
Erik Nelson
Raised around airplanes, Erik started flying gliders in 1986 and won his first regional contest at age 16. He flew on the U.S. Junior Soaring Team in...
Bob Fletcher
Bob started flying in Doncaster, UK before university. At university he joined Phil Gaisford on the Nottingham University committee and was instrumental in starting the annual Inter...
Pete Alexander ~ Team Captain
Pete Alexander is a retired Silicon Valley refugee who started flying gliders at the age of 14 at Sky Sailing in Fremont, CA. He flew his first...
Collin Mead ~ Team Captain
Colin grew up in Vermont ski racing in the winter and racing sailboats in the summer. He began soaring in Stowe, Vermont during his freshman year in...
Tim Taylor
Tim began flying gliders in 1988 at Lagoon Valley Soaring near Vacaville, California. His early years were spent flying a Std. Cirrus from Lagoon Valley, Truckee, and...
Fernando Silva
Fernando Silva recently retired as a partner of a global management-consulting firm where he led the strategic planning and corporate finance teams for North America. He transitioned...
Mike Westbrook
Mike is a third generation pilot that grew up around the Texas Soaring Association and currently works as an instructor for FlightSafety International. First soloing on his...
Boyd Willat
Boyd Willat was born into soaring at Sky Sailing in Warner Springs California where his parents have been the owners since 1979. He soloed 23 different gliders...
Jim Lee
Jim soloed a Cessna 150 on his 16th birthday and received a private SEL rating on his 17th birthday. Flying light planes became boring, but fortunately hanggliding...
Marvin “Bif” Huss
Marvin ‘Bif’ Huss began his flying career in 1974 flying hang gliders. In 1978 he was a member of the US Hang Gliding Team at the American...
