Hey ya'll, Any opinions/experience regarding the Briegleb 12B? As always, I look to the vastness of your communal experience and appreciate willingness to share it with others. This is a great group. Curt

From the Archives...#005 is now online for your viewing pleasure at http://users.tminet.com/pawling/minghelli005.htm From the Archives... are interesting documents and stories gleaned from the California State Soaring Records files. #005 is a multiplace distance record set in 1965 by Ed Minghelli...

Hi All, Can onyone tell me if the skins on the forward fuselage of an IS-28 are flat wrapped or compound curved (i.e. stretch formed). In other words would it be easy to rebuild the forward fuselage using sheet stock or would it be necessary to buy the preformed skins. Thanks,

I want to ask you folks a question: why isn't there a glider where the pilot flies face-down? The Wrights did it, the Horten (?) wing, and hang gliders are about the only thing you can fly facing the earth. I don't see why a sailplane couldn't be flown that way, but no designers appear to even...

Day 2 results for the 2003 South African National Gliding Championships are now available from: http://www.sssa.org.za

Group, Anyone have info on the midair between a J-3 and glider in Arizona this wkend? GR

With all this talk about plasma rope, etc. and the need for guillotines, etc. I got to wondering how many times had winch guillotines been operated in a real emergency. Certainly people have tested them, but if you know of a case where the winch driver had to cut a glider loose, let us know here...

Anyone know how to actually contact him? All I can ever raise is his Audex recording. Thank, John Bojack

The latest version of WinPilot (4.61) does not seem to have the ability to set the comm port for the GPS. (Mine is a NavMan 4400 wireless (Bluetooth).) Has anyone else had experience with this? Someone, somewhere said to go to Menu / Comm port, but I can only get a menu in WinPilot Simulator, and...

Building up a second 180 HP Cessna 150 Towplane at Marfa. Need a clean set of gear legs for a 1959 C-150. Part #'s 0441163-5 / 0441163-6 Tried all the usual parts places, bulletin boards and google searches. Now that I am in Texas full-time, my stuff won't rust away so quickly! Burt...

Are they available on line? There was a mid air over the alps last August which I wanted to read about. Anyone know where to find the report? Thanks

Dear All, I am looking for a vector based version of the blue soaring logo with the three seagull. If anyone can point me to a scaleable version somewhere on the net, I will be very pleased. Best regards and best whishes for the new year. PS: I am sorry if the word are not seagulls - I am not...

Reports from Bloemfontein and Day 1 results available from: http://www.sssa.org.za Day 2 tasks call for a 300Km Triangle for the Club Class and an assigned area of 754Km for the 15 Metre and Open Class. Optimists are saying that if the alloted time of 3.75 hours is used then averages will be 201...

Haven't seen him for a long time here and on the Gliderforum.com Did he switch to read-only mode? ;) JK

I was looking on the map trying to figure out some of the tasks that Moffat wrote about in Winning on the Wing. In that book and his July 2003 Soaring article he writes about tasks using a turnpoint - the town of "Ardoin". I cannot find Ardoin on a map of TX or NM. Does anyone know where this...

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap12-28-154854.asp?t=apnew&vts =122820031627 Just saw this on the web, aircraft reported as ASK21 and J3.

ATTN SGS 1-35 pilots and enthusiasts. I have updated the 1-35 page with the latest batch of information, tips, pics, owners list, and other helpful data. Visit, or pass on the link on to a friend. http://www.goldengate.net/~tmrent/soar/docs/135/sgs135new.htm Good lift,

New Paragliding Gallery! Some of the pictures are really amazing. You can fid it on http://paragliding-in-poland.w.interia.pl/ . On the first page choose "wersja polska" than click on the link "Galeria Polskiej fotografii Paralotniowej ju¿ dzia³a!" Have a nice visit. All the pictures are in...

In a rare mid-week paste-up to the Avenal site www.soaravenal.com Pez goes out on his first glider ride. Any similarity between any people, places and events is purely coincidental and I don't have any money anyway so don't sue me.

Hi, I have an Astir CS77, a fine but venerable glass machine. I am refurbishing the cockpit, panel, and so on. Having got the panel to bits I am looking at the best way of putting it all back together. So: 1) I have two static systems, a forward system and a rear one. In the current...