....yesterday, 31.7.2010. http://picasaweb.google.hr/pilotban/SvjetskoJedrilicarskoSzeged2010

For sale: 2-1/4 inch Aerosonic altimeter in excellent condition. It's a very nice three-pointer altimeter, and really well made - list price new is over $3000. There's a (dusty) photo of it posted in the Cumulus Soaring Classifieds. $425 or Best Offer!

any Libelle owners out there have pics of how the wheel assy looks when it's bolted up to the landing gear tubes? I want to get an idea of how the brake cable housing terminates and how the anti-rotation pin assy works. is the brake actuated by the airbrake pull? thanks, Brad

Baltimore-based Belfort Instruments suing fired worker A Baltimore manufacturer of weather instruments is suing a fired employee it claims is on an anonymous Internet rampage. Belfort Instrument says Mark W. Decker has been harassing current Belfort employees via e-mail, calling the company's...

A year or two ago, there was a Phoebus that sold for under $7k on Wings and Wheels. Now there's another (without a trailer) for $7k. How does the value of a 17 meter, 42:1 glider NOT exceed that of a 1-26? I already have a glider I love, but I still like to look at OTHER gliders (don't tell...

I wanted to clarify something about an Out & Return route. My planned flight is for a 500k O&R. I want to use my home airport as a remote start, fly 10km south to turnpoint 1 fly 250km north to turnpoint 2 fly 240km south and finish at my home airport . Does this fit the FAI sporting code for...

Just wanted to share an interesting article found at: http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-716.html Here are some key figures extracted from it: - non-severe thunderstorm: 15 to 30 MPH (1,200 - 2,500 fpm) - severe "Multicell cluster" thunderstorms: 60 MPH (5,500 fpm) - supercell:...

anyone have a sailplane wheel and mechanical drum brake they want to sell? tire needs to be 12". thanks, Brad

On Jul 28, 3:46*pm, akiley wrote: A little follow up for clarification. *I can't figure out what's more important, staying behind the tow plane or trying to level the wings with rudder during the initial roll. *(assuming ailerons are mostly useless at this slow...

Hi all, new forum member, new transition glider pilot as of this spring. I just got a checkout and have done two flights in a 1970 Standard Cirrus that our club owns. (This Cirrus model has the full flying elevator s/n 70 I think) I read as much as I could find on the web, thought long and hard...

Looking for information and feedback from anyone who has found a good method or source for printing or having printed replacement placards for an aging glider when no longer available from the manufacturer. John

http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.nsf/list/2010-14-15?OpenDocument Effective July 19th, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pakiavelli#p/a/u/2/3wdsE1UgP6k You must watch this in HD. Quite impressive (starts a bit blurry and then clears up). -bob

"Flying over the white cliffs of Dover, the two pilots of a Gulfstream 450 jet keep their eyes glued to a flight-deck display, ignoring the almost cloudless sky over the southern coast of England on their descent to a nearby...

Gotta hand it to Johan Bosman on this one... look at pg 5 of this pdf: http://www.streckenflug.at/news/js_communication_2010_07.pdf Personally I think his take on the exhaust vent is simply ingenious. The opening on that thing is immense and has got to allow much air to pass, but flow is organized...

When I read FAR Part 103 it says that ultralights must have a power off stalling speed of no more than 24 knots. When I go to the Windward Performance web page it shows the stall speed of the SparrowHawk as 32 knots. How can the SparrowHawk be flown as an ultralight in the U.S.?

We'll try again with a lower price.... Our club has been cleaning out a lot of accumulated treasurers. We discovered we have 2 Winter Barographs, in breifcases. We no longer use them. I just went thru the cases and sorted out all the accumulated stuff in the cases (old forms, dried out markers,...

Wow what a fun week! We had a blast up in Logan for an amazing week of soaring for every day of the six day Region 9 contest. I took over 20 hours worth of 1080 HD video footage mostly in the cockpit each day of the task. Here is the first video to share with the world which was taken on...

Just a quick post to let everyone know that we are having a great time here in Logan Utah at the R9N competition. This is the 2nd year for a competition at this site and the USA 15 Meter Nationals will be here in 2011! 25 pilots are competing and having fun, getting challenged and racking up the...

http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief.asp?ev_id=20100718X52929&key=1 A sad accident, and a reminder how useless the NTSB can be when it comes to investigating a gliding accident. We already know that the media is useless in getting the facts right, but in this case the media reports were correct while...