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Ana Flew in a Glider Today!

31 August 2013 Aerial photographyFlight

Because Ana had been a diligent timekeeper, recording take-offs and landings on a sunny Saturday afternoon, Boštjan took her soaring around Postojna airfield in a Blanik L-13.

Here are the shots Ana took from the aircraft:

Cockpit view from a glider high above patchwork countryside, with round instruments, wooden side panels and a clear canopy.

A glider passenger sits beneath a clear canopy in flight, surrounded by blue sky and distant landscape.

High aerial view across Postojna's dense town centre, roads and surrounding green fields.

A small white glider banks beneath towering summer clouds above a hazy blue landscape.

A glider banks above a town and surrounding fields, its long white wing crossing the aerial view.

A tilted aerial view shows a town, fields and wooded slopes from a glider above Postojna.

And a few more shots before and after take-off:

Ana stands beside a white glider on a sunny grass airfield while another person sits beneath its open canopy.

A smiling glider passenger wearing a dark sun hat sits strapped into the transparent cockpit.

View from beside a glider cockpit, with two occupants visible beneath the clear canopy before flight.

A red-nosed Blanik glider rests on the grass at Postojna airfield beneath a clear sky.

A red-and-white glider rests on a sunny grass airfield beside trees, its cockpit canopy open.

Two slender gliders rest side by side on the grass at Postojna airfield.

A red-and-white glider approaches the grass runway with landing gear down and a wooded hill behind the airfield.

A glider approaches above a settlement and wooded hill, its red wing tips visible against the blue sky.

A white glider approaches low over an airfield, with a village and wooded hills beyond the runway.

Two small aircraft fly above wooded hills while a striped windsock marks Postojna airfield below.

A glider descends toward a grass runway beneath a bright blue sky streaked by a diagonal sunbeam.

Two occupants sit beneath the clear canopy of a tandem glider, with a camera in the front cockpit.

Ana holds flight papers beside parked gliders on a bright grass airfield after her soaring experience.

Two people inspect or prepare a glider wing on a sunny grass airfield.

A handwritten gliding flight log is clipped to a board, with rows of times and aircraft details.

The same day was important for me too, as that morning I completed my first solo flight in an aircraft from a related series, a Blanik L-23. Here is the proof! :)

A pilot sits in the open Blanik glider cockpit while two people stand beside the red-tipped wing.

A glider pilot and helper stand beside the orange-nosed aircraft on a sunny grass airfield.

A white sailplane with red wing tips stands on the sunny grass at the airfield.

A distant glider passes low above a flowered grass airfield, with a compact town and wooded hill beyond.

Several people walk across a bright grass airfield after a glider flight beneath a clear summer sky.