Local Soaring Awards
The Delbert
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The Delbert Trophy is a traveling trophy which can be claimed by flying a glider between Stanton Airport (home of the Minnesota Soaring Club) and Osceola Airport (home of the Red Wing Soaring Association).
The flight would be about 59.8 miles if you could fly directly between the airports, but you must fly around the controlled airspace surrounding the Minneapolis airport, so the actual distance flown is more like 75 miles. After members of a club make the flight to claim the trophy, members of the other club know that they have been challenged to come and claim the trophy back. |
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The Triple Crown
The Triple Crown is also a traveling trophy that can be claimed by glider pilots based at any of the three gliderports. Those gliderports include Faribault, Stanton and Osceola.
The flight is approximately 85 miles if you avoid class B airspace. As you need to go to three airports it is not required to land at any particular gliderport. The pilot just needs to prove either overflying or landing, typically with a flight data log.
Along with the Delbert once glider pilots make the flight to claim the trophy, other glider pilots know that they have been challenged to come and claim the trophy back.
The flight is approximately 85 miles if you avoid class B airspace. As you need to go to three airports it is not required to land at any particular gliderport. The pilot just needs to prove either overflying or landing, typically with a flight data log.
Along with the Delbert once glider pilots make the flight to claim the trophy, other glider pilots know that they have been challenged to come and claim the trophy back.
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The Sancho Panza
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The trophy is to be awarded annually to the glider crew who makes the greatest effort or most significant sacrifices to perform retrieve services for glider pilots. The purpose therefore is to recognize the unsung heroes of cross-country flights, the retrieve crews, who are essential for successful cross-country glider flights. Generally, the award is made for some unusual effort such as an extremely long overnight retrieve, or a muddy field situation requiring great effort, or a number of retrieves for an individual pilot or for different pilots, and other situations requiring significant effort.
Past Recipients: |
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1992: Don Patterson
1995: Norb Reinardy 1996: JC Cunningham 1997: Kathy Ingraham 1999: Mark Cleare 2000: Roger Payne |
2002: Walt Johnson
2005: JC Cunningham 2006: Steve Metz 2007: Jim Hard 2008: Kathleen Winters 2009: Roger Payne, Walt Johnson |
2010: Paul Esser
2011: Roger Lee 2012: Fred Hewitt, Paul Esser 2013: Roger Urban 2014: Marilyn Meline, Stephen Nesser |
The Agricultural Ambassador
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The Minnesota Association of Soaring Clubs Agricultural Ambassador Award is given annually for distinguished contributions to the practice of off-field landings. This award can go to any member of a Minnesota Soaring Club (including RWSA).
Past Recipients: 2013: Steve Kennedy for consistency in the choice of landing places 2014: Paul Campobasso and Gareth Wren for promoting early practical experience in landing out. |
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