Jim, How much did the new board in the volkslogger cost you, and what was turn around time like? I have been flying with one for several years having to turn my squelch all the way up to keep from going nuts. I would love to get that one from you, but the timing is not quite wright. Kevin R....

I have one to add. Earlier this year, I landed in a very big field next to a council-owned housing estate in South Yorkshire, UK. After landing safely, I noticed that the field contained young pea plants. No problem, I thought. I'll just be careful as I walk out of the field. They were so small...

I have one to add. Earlier this year, I landed in a very big field next to a council-owned housing estate in South Yorkshire, UK. After landing safely, I noticed that the field contained young pea plants. No problem, I thought. I'll just be careful as I walk out of the field. They were so small...

I have one to add. Earlier this year, I landed in a very big field next to a council-owned housing estate in South Yorkshire, UK. After landing safely, I noticed that the field contained young pea plants. No problem, I thought. I'll just be careful as I walk out of the field. They were so small...

Today Gordon Boettger flew his Kestrel on a 3TP flight of about 1800km out of Minden, Nevada. A sunrise takeoff lead to the first turn near Chilcoot, then South to near Inyokern, back North to Susanville, then down to Palmdale. This flight handily beats my flight of last year on a similar route. ...

About one hour ago, Gordon Boettger landed his Kestrel 17 at Orovada, Nevada near sunset after completing a declared 3 TP wave flight starting at Minden. The estimated distance is about 2056km over 14 hours. This was an unusually strong system late in the Sierra wave season. Cruise altitudes...

While in NZ last year I was struck by how a tagline for NZ is "The Land of the Long White Cloud", yet I could not find in any tourist spot or museum a really good, poster size lenticular image. One lady at the Auckland museum said, "It's a myth!", whereupon I corrected her with the explanation of...

I've not seen anything from SSA or AOPA on this. A timely topic for the SSA convention. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jan-28-Sat-2006/news/5585073.html Text is below. "Glider activity would not be impaired". Oh, you don't just go up and come right down like that glider ride I...

so hurry up and make those thermal flight records! 8^) http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060207-041447-2345r

As of 3:30p, Gordon Boettger and Hugh Bennett flying a Duo Discus, are on the third leg entering the Owens Valley.. Conditions are, as they say in the meteorology world, SCREAMIN', as they've been at max speed speed most of the time. Follow the flight on the spot...

The newly released Google Buzz allowing you to do unlimited length tweet-like messages also showing where you sent it from on their maps if you have a GPS enabled 3G type phone. I haven't tried this aloft but it looks like this could be useful for at least transmitting where you landed out. I now...

and the good soaring days of this upcoming season. My mood has just brightened..... Kemp

Thank you to the many of you from all continents who, through your purchases and positive comments, support this project. We are inspired to do more of these! Some interesting followon activities include possible third party DVD distribution (at lower resolution of course), a private showing in...

If some of you didn't already know, Fred Lasor and Laurie Harden of Soaring NV at Minden, Nevada are hosting a wave camp April 8-12. Each morning a speaker will review a wave topic such as weather forecasting (Doug Armstrong), wave flying procedures at Minden (Fred LaSor), Sierra Wave Cross Country...

In the Sept 08 issue of RC Sport Flyer magazine, there are a number of soaring focused articles: - Dynamic soaring (pg 56). These guys get their RC gliders to over 300mph! - Vintage Glider rally (pg 40) - ASG-29 (pg 122). About 1/3 scale. It's huge! Go to: ...

To use the video capture features on a Macbook (10.4.11), I installed VMware Fusion 1.1, the Windows XP, then SeeYou. The result is a reasonable but not great SeeYou play rate which I then captured with IShowU. Has anyone else done this and compared the performance using Parallels? The goal is...

In the category of "eccentric gliders", a non-soaring friend told me that one run of the Japanese Animae cartoon series Eureka7, is about a character who is or flies a glider (sorry, I've not actually read or seen the series). Part of the story line is the search for lift. Turns out someone has...

Expanding on cherokee3's and Alistar's thread, I have achieved the lofty (and unplanned) status of more than one landout in a day. Last month with a new XC pilot, I managed to put the Duo down at one county airport about 30 miles away and then on the retrieve tow, got off too early and had to land...

As an experiment, I've posted some videos I took of a few exhibitors at the SSA Convention in Memphis TN earlier this month. To view, you need Quicktime 7 (not 6, you won't get video) and a broadband connection as these videos are 10x+ of a typical YouTube video. There are also clickable links IN...

Today's award recipient for the luckiest person on earth: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17185299/?GT1=9033 Kemp