Tony Condon learned to soar with the Silent Knights Glider Club in Ames, IA while attending Iowa State University in Aerospace Engineering. He began flying cross country in his Cherokee II, eventually making flights of 100 miles accompanied by many many off airport landings. After moving to Wichita, KS he joined the Kansas Soaring Association, flew Gold Distance in the Cherokee II and got hooked on contest flying. Since then he has moved up to a Standard Cirrus and earned his Diamond Badge with 750km Diploma. In 2015 he competed in the 1st FAI Pan American Gliding Championships and the 1st and 2nd FAI 13.5 Meter World Gliding Championships. He won the 2021 & 2024 Club Class Nationals. Tony is an active Designated Pilot Examiner in Gliders and Airplanes, a CFIG, and occasional tow pilot.
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Team USA Report – WGC Day 14 – Final Report
Weather was good today – perhaps a bit better than forecast. Tasks were – as expected on the final day [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 13
A difficult day with long tasks, more than half of which were not completed. The forecast was for decent lift [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 12
WGC2025 enjoyed its best weather of the contest thus far – though you could be excused for not expecting this [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 11
A decidedly better forecast today. The front that brought rain has wandered off well to the east, leaving Tabor with [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 10
We awoke to a sky full of low clouds and light rain. It did not look like the start [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 9
Today was a strange one. Forecasts agreed that an approaching front would at last sweep away the awkward airmass that [...]