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Welcome to the first newsletter of 2018! The year has taken off to another record-breaking start with a new record task being set at Forbes and 6 new women’s world records in for verification.

Records at Forbes!

Task 4 at the world renowned Forbes Flatlands hang gliding competition set a new World record for task distance, setting a goal at Manilla for 388km! 16 pilots made the goal with more than half the competition setting new personal bests! The conditions were so good that the first pilots in goal made it with an average task speed of over 74kmh! Now that’s fast! #howgoodisforbes!

Alexandra Serebrennikova (Sasha) acheived 6 world record claims. On the first practice day she flew a 217km FAI triangle claiming - Distance over a triangular course (201.4km), Speed over a triangular course of 200km (37.83km) and Free distance around a triangle course 213km. On the record task 4 she launched first and pushed upwind to a declared turn point maximising her distance before flying to a goal just past the open class goal for 3 more world records claims! Straight distance (408.1km), Straight distance to a declared goal (407.99km) and Free distance (417.1 km) using upto 3 turn points.

The first three pilots to goal on the big day (Forbes to Manilla for 388km),
L - R Tyler Borradaile Can 3rd, Jonny Durand Aus 2nd, Ollie Chitty UK in 1st.

Winner are grinners!
Forbes Flatlands 2018 Champions
L-R: Josh Woods Aus. 3rd, Alexandra Serebrennikova Rus. 1st Woman, Jonny Durand Aus. 2nd, Rory Duncan Aus. 1st.

Results here: http://www.forbesflatlands.com/results/results-2018

Competition write up can be found here: http://xcmag.com/magazine-articles/legends-made-forbes-flatlands-2018/

We would like to take this time to thank everyone that volunteered and helped at the Forbes Flatlands competition. From the marshals and tug pilots through to the retrieve drivers and our social media staff, we really couldn’t do it without each and every one of you, Thank you!!

You can also follow along task by task and by watching Ollie Chitty’s VLOG series on YouTube.

Don’t forget about our RX PROmotion!

Get your passport renewed, throw your shorts, hat and T-shirt in your harness bag, don’t forget your sunscreen and get ready to jump on a plane to Oz!

Be one of the first 30 to place your order for a new RX Pro in the new year and go in the draw to win a trip to the Moyes factory to witness your glider being produced and test flown.
Watch your new glider being produced in front of your eyes then fly your brand new RX Pro at iconic Stanwell Park.

T&C’s apply
Orders must be for RX Pro
Drawn 1st April or before
Includes 1 x Return airfare to the value of A$2500 to Australia and 1 weeks accommodation with the Moyes Family or gift voucher equivalent for an Aussie.

https://moyes.com.au/products/hang-gliders/litespeed-rx

Moyes RX3 - The glider of choice

With the Forbes Flatlands being won by young Rory Duncan flying the RX3 and Sasha’s Record setting streak is showing precedence as the option for lighter pilots all around the world, 2018 has just started but we’re already excited about what’s next for the mini RX!

Rory Duncan on tow. Bill Moyes congratulats Rory

Gecko 170 and 155

Carrying on from last year the Gecko 170 and 155 are in serious demand across the globe, Peter Garrone won the sport class on his 155 Gecko with a very consistent performance.

Craig Taylor flew the Moyes demo 155 Gecko for the final 2 tasks of the Forbes flatlands competition after his glider unfortunately suffered damage. First a 160km triangle in the open task and then a 150km cats cradle task, completing both in impressive time, it's no surprise he has such a big grin on his face! Nice one Craig!

Also keep an our on our social media streams including Instagram and Facebook for all the latest updates and gear coming out of the factory!

Moyes Scandinavia

A very big welcome to Olav Opsanger who now will be our Moyes man servicing the
whole of Scandinavia including Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
Olav is very pro-active, competitive and knowledgeable in all products Moyes and after spending the last 3 months in Australia he’s half Aussie!

We look forward to an exciting future in Scandinavia!

Olav is offering a "Scandinavian Special" for the first order of a Malibu, Gecko, Litesport or RX Pro
Contact Olav at olavops@online.no to find out more.

Forbes Flatlands 2018 is a winner!

We were presently surprised and quite delighted to receive the “Ambassador” award for our contribution to the Forbes local community presented from the Forbes Rotary Club.
Len and Kirsten Paton were at the ceremony in Forbes on Australia Day attended by 300 people.
Other runners up were the Forbes Rugby Club for winning the regional premiership, Yellow Bee business for developing the local honey factory, a boutique wine maker, and other rural community projects ....
All the other recipients simply came up and received from the Mayor, Graham Miller, a framed certificate after the MC gave some background to their achievement.
After all the others we presented with their certificates, the "Forbes Flatlands" was the last called - "And the winner is .... ".

This award belongs to our whole team and the hang gliding community who make this event possible year after year.
Special thanks to Len and Kirsten for being there to accept the award!

The New Zealand Nationals

The New Zealand Nationals have just finished up in Murchison, NZ. They had a great roll up of 46 pilots to celebrate their 40th anniversary!

We had another great result with an all Moyes Boy podium.
Congratulations to John Smith 1st, Matt Barlow 2nd and Ollie Chitty 3rd

Results and Blog at:
https://nzhgnats.blogspot.com.au/p/2018-results-overall.html

Subscribe to Ollie’s youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrGVjxPFCPU

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