Sarah Kelly-Arnold and Rachel Flem had an amazing flight in a lowly 2-33A on Thursday. It appears they may have set 12 new TN records and 3 national records with this flight. I think Sarah deserves more of a medal for sitting in the back seat of the 2-33 for the four hours plus.. Anyway,...

Hi all, I got a bit bored and started filming some glider electronics experiments. I am attempting to pitch them to be interesting and understandable even if you don't know much about electronics. First up: Glider Electronics Experiment #1 - electrical crosstalk demonstrated Available...

Is portable TABS (non 2020 compliant ADS-B-out) coming to the USA in 2020? This unit looks a lot like portable TABS. https://uavionix.com/products/skyecho/ It also implements FLARM, and I think that would need to be disabled in the USA. The price point looks right.

Jim Neff had a nice wave flight out of Inyokern yesterday, OLC #1 for the day. Jim https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=6275290

Hi, Today I received the first proof of the soon to be released book "Sky Full of Heat" by Sebastian Kawa. The proof is nearly perfect, so the book should be out in large quantities in a week or 2 or 3. I have only skimmed through the book, but it looks very, very interesting. I anticipate...

I have a Cambridge 303 LCD Nav Display For Sale. It works beautifully; like new condition.Sells for $410 new, I am asking $275. Comes with communication cable.

Hello, All, I'm very happy to announce that my club now has a Piper Pawnee. It has a 260hp engine, Hutchinson conversion and a Tost tow hook. It's gone through a long rejuvenation process with all new electrical system, glass, radio, transponder, lights, strobe and encoder. Despite flying in the...

I found out today that Popular Science put all of their issues going many years back into Google Books, available for free. I was just browsing Jul 1948 issue when I found this article there that talks about the soaring in 1948 and Robinson "Rate of climb" instrument. Man we have it easy these...

Striking pictures of the clouds around a volcano as seen from space. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195215/Stunning-pictures-hole-clouds-astronauts-witness-volcano-eruption-International-Space-Station.html Sadly, no mention of the variometer reading from that thermal. Chris

Hello Dennis, SSA. EAA. Warbirds of America, Please see this below and read. Regulatory relief is needed by gliders, as is sought by Warbirds of America/EAA.

Today made up for yesterday. The sky simply kept xploding with great white flat bottom cu's. The best climb of the day was SM with a 17 kt average over several thousand. Folks, these aren't vario readings, but the average climb over several thousand ft. seen on See You. Yep, all had great flights,...

I am looking to purchase an O2 bottle that will fit my LS4. The tank needs to be 4 1/8" in diameter, but no wider. I

Does anyone own a Reichman Sailplane Trailer? We have one with the LS-7 that we have imported to the port of Baltimore, USA and need to prove the trailer is older than 25 years old. Anyone have a registration or something with this trailer that I can prove this information? My understanding is that...

I'm headed to Elmira in 3 weeks for the Std. Nats and want to know what my options are for getting FLARM equipped. I missed a few seasons so tracked the whole PowerFLARM revolution via RAS. Not excited about buying one just yet. I understand there were some early units for rent at one time....

It looks like I'll finish this batch a bit ahead of schedule. If I can finish making and adding the shank fittings this weekend I will start mailing them out Monday 28 November. It also looks like I might have one left over--when I make parts like this I always kit out one or two extra assemblies...

Where can one acquire one of these. Windy here in Australia. Thanks, Sean

Last year I was looking for such a device to allow me to montitor my speed more easily on approach so I didn't have to glance at the panel during this critical stage of flight. I found this affordable, small box that plumbs into your pitot line and runs on 12V. It is made in England. I only turn it...

Does anyone know of a good publication or web site that discusses the specifics of auto tow launches. In particular, what type of tow vehicles are appropriate and what release altitudes are possible for various length runways, etc..... Thanks, -- Mike Schumann

I would like to see KS fly the Duo for the first half and then switch to an ASW 15 or like sailplane for the second half. It would be an interesting way to check out the handicap system. MC

I had a chance to meet him after his horse riding accident...and we chatted about soaring. He had a very positive attitude about the direction things were heading for him. http://acro.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/awards.pl