Well after the vintage glider meet in Wichita last month Leah got the bug, and Dave Schuur convinced her that she should buy a glider. Specifically, Dave's old Cherokee II that was again up for sale. Dave was nice enough to deliver it out to Wichita for us, today. Leah fits great! Pictures he...

A copy of the "Soaring School Manual" (7th Printing, 1971) published by the Schweizer Aircraft Corp, Elmira, NY. Picked it up at the used bookstore for 7 bucks. A neat read, and for a newbie like me, a glimpse into the "golden age" of American soaring. I wonder how many of these are still laying...

Favorite tactic of our goog friend John Robinson too. More guts than brains? Soaring pioneers launching in NY, come down in PA. See: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882769,00.html

I have an older Cessna oxygen mask with built in microphone in excellent condition. It seems like it would be great for high altitude wave flying or just to have with a classic old Cessna. If anyone is interested, contact me at

Updated US Airspace files for the charting cycle effective October 27, 2009 are now available in the airspace area of the Worldwide Turnpoint exchange. The same files are available on my website at www.xmission.com/~lalley/aviation. My website also includes a file generator for US airport...

Lest you think it can't happen to you and your gliderport: On the brink of the last tow from Sailplane Enterprises (on the 20th) and the forcible eviction of gliders from Hemet-Ryan Airport, comes a new assault. Kern County (CA) has in hand a proposed EIR to allow the erection of 320 wind...

This year'sSnowbird meet at Harris Hill is about the 70th such meet held. We are seeking pictures of previous Snowbird meets, especially older ones. If you have any that are digital or can be digitized, please email me at . If you know the date, the people in the picture and the...

Our club is repainting/recovering the ailerons, wings and horizontal tail of our 1999 Blanik L23. Our supervising A&P and I are stymied in the disassembly of the horizontal tail. The trim tab cable runs from a rocker arm near the forward horizontal tail attachement point through the stab and...

With the upper-midwestern soaring season just about done, I was looking for something to do during the winter, and decided to start on my CFI-G rating. This will be my initial CFI rating so I will need to pass the FOI, and CFI exams. What books would you recommend besides the obvious FAR/AIM, and...

Wish there was room for what you were all thinking... ;) I pulled the water bags out of my ASW-20B to inspect them for the first time and I was just curious what they even looked like. To my horror I saw that the string on my second wing was broken. The end of the world! I decided to pull the...

Hi Gang I decided I would put my self into the position of a member of a search and rescue which had been alerted that a certain person Dave Bingham was missing and that he was carrying a Spot tracker and that a recording of his flight might be found at the URL ssa.com which has a repository of...

For my winter project this year, I need some avionic & instrument stuff. I would prefer to send a check to you first, then you send the part to me second. I need 57 MM sizes to fit my panel. Here's what I need: -Radio -G-Meter -GPS -audio vario

I am looking for mountable posters hat have gliding themes. I am also looking for one specific poster that was featured many sear ago in Soaring I believe but not sure. It was a backlit Schempp Hirth fuselage in a dark hangar I would like to get a poster of that image. Udo

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Email me at or lets try this again: Email me at liv2soar(at)yahoo.com or scottandrewalexander(at)gmail.com

Here's a link to a video I made of this glider. I've recently learned how to make YouTube videos and had alot of pictures on my computer of this specific Discus. I wanted to help my friend Steve out, since he's been sooo helpful in getting me started in the contest circuit. I nearly puked when he...

Can someone provide me with a detailed info about the Centrair Marianne? Does it have a life limit like the Pegasus? Does it have a type certificate in the US? How does it fly? Can it be used for initial training? Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jacek Pasco, WA

I have a few hours into studying the subject and there is an awful lot of information, much of it in contradiction. I'm currently reading through all the articles linked to Dr. Jack and spent some time on Skew T although I have a hard time putting a lot of value on skew T as it's based on soundings...

From AOPA (see Chapter 14 re. glider operations). This will be very important reading for glider operators / clubs sharing public use airports that have received Federal grants. (See "Grant Assurances".) On the FAA website at: ...

A recently deceased member of our club left an almost-complete set of Soaring magazines all the way back to 1989. I would like to put them in binders with his name on them and place them in our clubhouse as a resource for our members. However, the set is missing two issues: September 1988 and...