There are slots available for the R4N contest at Fairfield, Pa October 10-16. Support the Team, have some fun, even learn something! Karl Striedieck karls at uplink.net

I lost my best friend in a mid-air last November, a Cirrus hit a tow plane in Colorado, we had a mid-air at Parowan and now the mid-air in Uvalde! I'm going ballistic as in Ballistic recovery system (BRS). At my age there's no way I'm getting out of my ship unless it's straight and level and...

Next Saturday from Mountain Valley Airport, Tehachapi CA. Pilots meeting at 10:00, please register in the coffee shop before then. For your $5 entry fee you get great flying for as far as you are able, a landout and retrieve to remember, a chance to win your unique winner's T-shirt , and...

Next Saturday from Mountain Valley Airport, Tehachapi CA. Pilots meeting at 10:00, please register in the coffee shop before then. For your $5 entry fee you get great flying for as far as you are able, a landout and retrieve to remember, a chance to win your unique winner's T-shirt , and...

....is actually pretty nice. In addition to a clean layout with lots of large and clear color photos of interesting things and good writings to tie it all together, it physically feels like higher quality paper and mine even came wrapped in plastic, in mint condition no less. This issue is very...

Looking for a 57mm altimeter or other metric instruments. I know, with current exchange rate not too many European imports here but... Thank you, Andy

I am looking for used draw bar (the tong) and all the parts that go inside of the Cobra trailer. Does anyone here in the US have a damaged, ruined, not road worthy trailer and is willing to sell those parts to me? Thanks, Jacek, Pasco, WA 509-380-4106

At 16:49 03 September 2010, Darryl Ramm wrote: I really just don't get the process at all. The long term logic ought to be develop a validation program entirely independent of the hardware manufacturer. Given any valid IGC file and the public key this should be doable. There should be no...

At 15:36 03 September 2010, Tim Newport-Peace wrote: Validating traces is still a valid requirement so the tools to do so need to keep up with times. Nick H It has always been the case that older products have "Grandfathers Rights". So there does not seem to be a way of forcing a...

You might find this entertaining: http://money.cnn.com/video/fortune/2010/08/18/f_bsg_electric_airplane.cnnmoney/ See ya, Dave "YO electric" PS: Not sure of the schedule for airing on CNN...

Over 80% of new GA aircraft come equipped with seatbelt airbags. Is there a reason why they cannot or would not be practical for use in sailplanes?

Ben and I sold our first new set of Duster plans in Brazil. I have a second tentative Duster plan order going the the UK soon as well. Lots of tire kickers too. Ben and I are looking to get as many Dusters being built as possible! Check out http://buildaduster.info/ to find out more. Come on!...

On Aug 29, 6:34*am, Bruno wrote: *Something that may be of interest is that I only needed to thermal 3 times during the entire span of the videos so it shows running the course using energy lines instead of thermal/glide - repeat. ...

Does anyone have a source for the flight history of Blanik L-13 OE-0935 that was involved in the wing failure? Total hours, take-off/ landings, aerobatics, and winch launch history?

I got excited when I read about the cheap chinese PNA tablets around $100: 600MHz CP, Wince 6.0, fast GPS built-in.... On this NG. Then it took a month to show up, after an attempted order cancellation from the vendor (??) - Ever hear of such a thing? I thought it would make a nice moving...

Lately there has been a discussion re Dyneema in this group. Incidentally, on the DG home page there's an interesting article to this theme (originally published by "Magazin Segelfliegen"). It's German and I'm not aware of an English translation. http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/windenseil-d.html

At 05:53 28 August 2010, mike malis wrote: The casien I was referring to was the pink type, late sixties vintage, with anti fungal additives. Still, I saw 98% adhesive failure on sound Kiefer Pine laminated spar cap (Ka-8B) OTOH, I used resoursinal glue on a wood stand thet has been...

I am pleased to announce IGC-approval of the Nano GNSS Flight recorder from LXNAV d.o.o., with effect from 31 August 2010. This follows test and evaluation by the IGC GNSS Flight Recorder Approval Committee (GFAC) in accordance with Annex B to the Sporting Code and the Specification for...

VSLA? A123? Cycling chargers?? I think this subject should have it's own thread. Unlike transponders, we almost all need them.

Now that Costello has announced that for purposes of being covered by insurance, clubs can make their own determination for experience requirements for tow pilots, I wonder what some of you are looking at doing. As I understand it, the old basic insurance requirement was 500 hrs PIC and 100 hrs...