The Italian pilot Kurt Eder is a great Cross-Country master, and he has proved it again. On April 10, he exceeded all expectations by completing a 244.78 km triangle on Niviuk's new two-line EN C, the Artik Race, just a few days after receiving it.
On that day, Kurt took off from Antholz with the sole aim of familiarizing himself with the glider, but in the end he was in the air for almost 10 hours, doing a triangular route of 244.78 km with a climb of 6.5 m/s and a maximum altitude of 4176 m.
In addition to the incredible distance, it is important to note the sustained average. Kurt had sensed that with the Artik R he would be able to maintain very high flight speed averages, and he immediately proved it by maintaining a final average of 26.18 km/h after 9 hours and 27 minutes of flight, but up to the eighth hour he had been travelling at an average of 28.5 km/h. Not bad at all!
"I am very happy and excited about my new Artik R. So far I have flown it for 20 hours and I haven’t had the slightest disruption. I firmly believe that it is the most complete glider I have flown so far. Also, what I like the most is that I can keep up with everyone else without having to worry about safety, I can just focus on enjoying the flight. It&39;s a real blast, congratulations to the whole Niviuk team for creating such a machine", explains the pilot.
You will find all the details of the flight on XContest.
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