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Glider crossing the finish line at high speed after completing a competition task of several hundred kilometers. It is dropping water ballast, which it must jettison before landing. Since it is travelling at about 140 knots (280 km/h), it still has enough energy to climb after crossing the line so it can make a normal landing approach.

The glider is a Rolladen-Schneider LS4. It has the UK competition marking of PZ. It was being flown by John Roberts.

Photograph reproduced with the kind permission of whiteplanes.com.

Copyright owner confirmed to me personally that permission had been granted to use this image.JMcC 17:18, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

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