American Team  

Karl Striedieck Alphonso Jurado Henry Nixon John Good Dianne Nixon

Hornet Cirrus LS 1f Team Captain Team Manager

 

Further detail is available on the Team Home Page The Pilots Karl Striedieck Age 63, Karl has flown in 53 U.S. National Championships winning fifteen. Flight log: 36 yrs, over 6,000 hours. Has represented the US in nine World Gliding Championships taking the silver twice. Karl has also flown in three Smirnoff Derby's, one Hitachi and two foreign nationals. He has set nine World Distance records in out & return, goal and triangle categories from his magnificent ridge top Eagle Field. Karl enjoys the flying challenge of competitive soaring and is an accomplished falconer. Alphonso Jurado Retired cotton farmer, age 61. Earned his 1000K Diploma flying out of New Castle, Virginia. Alfonso has competed in over thirty US National Championships winning the US Sports Class Nationals seven times. He represented Ecuador in the 1991 World Gliding Championship in Uvalde, Texas. Henry Nixon Engineer, age 50, married with one child. Flight log: 27 yrs, 4700 hrs. Championships: Hank has flown approximately 20 Nationals in Sports, Standard, and 15-Metre classes. US 15m National Champion 2000, Gold badge with 2 diamonds and 1000k diploma. Of gliding, he says that racing sailplanes with friends is the greatest sport he knows. He likes the continuous challenge brought by the weather. Hank is a member of the SSA Rules Committee and is CFI at his club. He is especially proud of having soloed close to 100 teenage glider pilots, a couple dozen of whom soloed on their 14th birthdays. Team Captain -- John Good Associate editor, Soaring magazine, age 50. Flight log: 20 yrs 1400 hrs. John has flown in some eight US National Championships and is the past Out and Return World Record holder with a flight of 783 miles. This flight still stands as a US National record along with his 672 mile straight out US Standard Class National record. Team Manager -- Dianne Nixon Dianne is doing double duty for the 1st US Club Class Soaring Team, both crewing for husband Hank and acting as Team Manager. Dianne is a commercially rated glider pilot and has been in soaring since 1975. She owns a 1-26 and has acted as Contest Manager and helped out at many contests.