Cliff Robertson, friend and promoter of soaring. Sep 10, 2011 Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in "PT-109," won an Oscar for "Charly" and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88. His secretary of 53 years, Evelyn...

I needed a small part for AS-W 20 and thought M&H just might have it. Sent an e-mail and got a very quick reply and sure enough they had what I needed. Monty sent it right out and I'm back in business. Great service, both Monty and Heinze are great guys. Thanks Dan Rihn AS-W 20 WO

I heard there was a stall spin on base to final fatality at the recent Idhao flying get-together. Anyone got any specifics? Tough summer for gliding!

The NTSB just reported a Super Dimona crashed in the pattern at Winsted, MN on 5Sept. 1 dead, 1 injured. Anybody got any more info on this? Does that make 8 this year? Sad, JJ

Exactly 10 years ago -- probably within a few minutes of this being posted -- one of the greatest myths in aviation history took root when a jet airliner crashed into a field in rural Western Pennsylvania. It is the tale of "Let's Roll," the mysterious Flight 93. In my opinion it's the...

Hi Gang The new Phoenix came without a working TE probe because they had hoped to design their own but designing TE probes is 90% magic and 10% science and they failed. So I needed to change the Tasman Vario with an electronic vario that could operate from the static and pitot lines and calculate...

I'll be traveling to Southampton UK next week and would like to stop by Lasham on Saturday & take a dual flight. I've visited the website and unfortunately wasn't able to discern what options are available. Any local knowledge would be gratefully received. Thanks, Craig Funston -- Using...

For the second year, I am offering one-on-one cross-country mentoring sessions using the Condor soaring simulator. As instructor I host a Condor server on my PC here in Columbus, Ohio, and the student joins it from wherever they are - all they need is a good internet connection (i..e DSL or...

A weekend at Parowan, UT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbFUcn0wxZM&feature=youtube_gdata

I need to make a tail dolly for the HP-24, am looking for a place to get a castering wheel like I see on the factory made tail dolly's. Anyone have some ideas? thanks, Brad

Just saw on the SSA website that the R12 contest has been cancelled. Anyone know the story and reason(s)? Just curious as I was thinking of attending at one point but could not rearrange my schedule Ron Gleason

Al Santilli was born on May 28, 1914. At 91, almost 92, he is still active, regularly flying his Libelle out of Moriarty, New Mexico. (He's been soaring since he was 16 in 1930.) I'm trying to find out if he is the oldest currently active soaring pilot in America. If anyone knows of an active pilot...

(Apologies for the truncated earlier post...the 'draft' and 'send' buttons are adjacent...) Most U.S. glider pilots know of Tom Knauff, creator and long-time proprietor of the well-known Ridge Soaring Gliderport in Pennsylvania. Probably fewer are aware he has an intermittent electronic...

I have just heard that the SSA is no longer going to supply "The Joy of Soaring". This is the book that I have recommended to ab initio students and it has been well accepted. What are other instructors recommending to their ab initio students? Thanks. Carl

OK guys, I know you are out there. Could I please get some feed back on computer programs designed to fulfill the above mentioned information? Thanks. Zulu

Hi, I just received and added to my web site some new detailed drawings of the ClearNav Variometer. http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/clearnav.htm The latest product update is available he http://www.clearnav.net/main/cn-vario_status.html Best Regards,

The situation direct from the fireboss at 3 pm today is that the helicopters are continuing to operate from Mountain Valley, subduing persistent hotspots that are inaccessible to ground firefighters. They expect to continue this thru Saturday, so the TFR is extremely unlikely to be lifted on...

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I'm looking for Centrair service Bulletin 101-29 dated 7/30/2009. It provides inspection method associated with AD 2010-24-10. Can anybody help with this? Thanks UH

I am having a hard time finding the Cambridge PDA software that uploads turnpoints from a PDA to the 302, The Cambridge site is '404 file not found' and both Paul Remdes and Dickie Feakes's site link back to that same source...... Anyone know of a site where this can be found? Thanks, Bob 7U