Fence Free Flying in Texas

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I can attest that there are a lot of cows and fences in Texas. Texas is blessed - well - yes Texas is blessed. Sorry, back to the subject of this post. Texas is blessed, however, with several large areas where the land is good enough to be farmed every year, so most of the land has never been fenced. For example a lot of the Panhandle of Texas is unfenced as is much of the Texas Blacklands. The Texas Blacklands are a band of land that start near Hondo (Just east of Uvalde),curve around San Antonio, and ends up North of Dallas/ Fort Worth. Both areas usually have good soaring conditions (Super when it is dry). Some of the river valleys also have small bands of unfenced farm land. I am working on a map and an article for Soaring. I am looking for people who might suggest other areas to include in the map.

In the late 1950's and early 1960's when gliders with less than 25 to 1 L/D were commonly flown cross country, we mostly did not fly anywhere else except over these unfenced and cultivated areas. Land outs in the areas are safer and the retrieves are usually pretty straight forward.

I am thinking that when people are making their first few cross countries and first land outs these might good areas to concentrate their flying.

Bill Snead
6W

[son_of_flubber]

On Monday, May 5, 2014 11:00:37 PM UTC-4, gotovkotzepkoi wrote:

> Other than good thermals what is Texas blessed with? Please enlighten
> me.

Burt Compton

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.aviation.soaring/1re0K8QhIyI

[jfitch]

On Monday, May 5, 2014 8:00:37 PM UTC-7, gotovkotzepkoi wrote:
> 883082 Wrote:
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> > I can attest that there are a lot of cows and fences in Texas. Texas is
>
> > blessed - well - yes Texas is blessed. Sorry, back to the subject of
>
> > this post. Texas is blessed, however, with several large areas where
>
> > the land is good enough to be farmed every year, so most of the land has
>
> > never been fenced. For example a lot of the Panhandle of Texas is
>
> > unfenced as is much of the Texas Blacklands. The Texas Blacklands are a
>
> > band of land that start near Hondo (Just east of Uvalde),curve around
>
> > San Antonio, and ends up North of Dallas/ Fort Worth. Both areas
>
> > usually have good soaring conditions (Super when it is dry). Some of
>
> > the river valleys also have small bands of unfenced farm land. I am
>
> > working on a map and an article for Soaring. I am looking for people
>
> > who might suggest other areas to include in the map.
>
> >
>
> > In the late 1950's and early 1960's when gliders with less than 25 to 1
>
> > L/D were commonly flown cross country, we mostly did not fly anywhere
>
> > else except over these unfenced and cultivated areas. Land outs in the
>
> > areas are safer and the retrieves are usually pretty straight forward.
>
> >
>
> > I am thinking that when people are making their first few cross
>
> > countries and first land outs these might good areas to concentrate
>
> > their flying.
>
> >
>
> > Bill Snead
>
> > 6W
>
>
>
> Other than good thermals what is Texas blessed with? Please enlighten
>
> me.
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> --
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> gotovkotzepkoi

"If I owned Hell and Texas I would live in Hell and rent out Texas." - Mark Twain

[Tony V]

On 5/6/2014 11:24 AM, jfitch wrote:


>
> "If I owned Hell and Texas I would live in Hell and rent out Texas." - Mark Twain


General Phillip Sheridan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan

Tony "6N" (and Mark Twain fan)

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Texas has a lot of history to offer. From the Alamo and the Riverwalk in San Antonio to Dealy Plaza and that sad day in Dallas to Jim Hall's racing Chaparrals to Mooney Aircraft in Kerrville where one can travel down Al Mooney Drive ( or Blvd, I forget now) to see where the Mooney brothers designed and built the legendary M20. Of course, I shouldn't need to mention the Soaring history where so many of the soaring greats competed in Marfa on this venue. I am sure that you are all well versed on that.

Texas has a lot to offer above and beyond the great soaring conditions.

Brian K. Lott

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> Texas has a lot to offer above and beyond the great soaring conditions.
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>
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> Brian K.

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