Glider pilot covers 1000km on fresh air

ABOUT 4pm on an early December day, an alert goes off indicating another plane in the vicinity of James Nugent’s glider. The 23-year-old is soaring at 10,500 feet over the Big Desert National Park with plans to fly a total of 800km in preparation for the 2022 under-25 world championships in the Czech Republic in […]

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