| 257km FAI triangle with Mentor2, 223km FAI triangle with Ion2 (14.05.2012) |
 Das 257km FAI Dreieck von Johann Tockner Several Nova-pilots made the most of the great weather on Thursday and Friday and did some huge flights. Johann Tockner flies a 257km FAI triangle with his Mentor2, and beats the existing record for EN-B gliders (Robert Muggli, Mentor2) by 17 kilometers. Michael Pohl (246km FAI), Wolfgang Bernhard (245km FAI), and Johann Kronberger (245km FAI) Mario Mayer (222km FAI) exceeds the 200km FAI mark as well quite easily. We think it's worth mentioning, that this year only Mentor2 pilots flew FAI triangles with more than 200km in the standard-class. (EN-A and EN-B) Except Werner Luidolt, who flew a 223km FAI triangle with an Ion2. He is the current leader in the Ion2-Hundred Challenge, and receives 2000 Euros for the first FAI triangle over 200km with an Ion2. Together with Mauro Pianaro (213km, Factor2) and Raul Moras (243km, Triton) there are seven pilots who flew more than 200km FAI-triangles on Thursday. Such a success is a combination of outstanding piloting skills, very good equipment, and a little bit of luck. Congratulations to all the superb pilots! |
| Prion 2 (07.05.2012) |
 We are happy to present our latest development, called "Prion 2". We built the wing to continue the success, we are having with the Mentor 2 and with the Ion 2, in the segment of EN-A wings. Sizes S, M and L were recently certified. The sizes XS, and XXS will follow soon! |
| The Nova Juniors Team is growing (16.04.2012) |
 from top-left to bottom-right: Diego Martinez, Dominik Tschoder, Felix Bässgen, Gabriele Truant, Joel Denzler, Matthias Seren, Nina Wagner, Robert Schaller and Tanay Ingale Our pilots team has become an important part of Nova over the years. We are especially happy about the many motivated young pilots. That's why we decided to enlarge our Juniors Team. We were quite surprised by the big run of so many young people. That's why we took nine pilots instead of five, like we initially planed. We are really excited about the huge motivation and the good vibes among these young pilots. find more infos in our team blog. (Link) |
| Ion 2 Hundred Challenge (26.03.2012) |
 Michi Müller on a XC flight last season. Saturday was the first good XC day this year. In Switzerland and France many pilots flew beyond the 100 kilometer mark. Michi might be very pleased, that he left all the high end competition gliders clearly behind him. He might however be a little bit annoyed, that he missed the 200km FAI triangle by just a little bit more than 13 kilometres. Thereby he also missed the 2000 Euro prize money of the Ion 2 Hundred Challenge. But we are quite sure that it won't take long, until he adds those 13 kilometres. Until then we'd like to congratulate to this flight, which shows impressively, what is possible with the Ion2. |
| Spring (05.03.2012) |
 Mario Eder flying above the Achen-Lake The warm spring weather during the last weeks brought us strong thermals and therefore perfect conditions to work on the handling characteristics of our prototypes. In contrast to the thermal conditions the Achen-Lake was still showing its winterly side with bizarre structures in on the ice. We took this change to shoot some nice photos. |
| Stubai Cup and Mike Küng (05.03.2012) |
 Mike hiking up with skies, flying down with his Ibex and then walking up again. Thanks to the perfect weather the Stubai Cup was a big success. Our 50 demo gliders were way too little. Especially our Ion 2 and the Mentor 2 were constantly flying. Overall he managed to cover 9500 meters altitude difference in less than 24 hours. Congratulations to this performance! |
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