Is anyone familiar where to find plans or kits or otherwise of the "Swiss" canopy modification, (bigger canopy with wider base), for the Ka-6CR? Also, same for the "Cabrio" (open cockpit), canopy's for the CR and E? Many thanks for any assistance in finding such...our location is in the United...

Saw a Pawnee bend its prop on a taxiway light while taxiing. Other than repairing the prop or replacing it with another what is required by either Lycoming or the FAA for inspection of the engine? Thanks Mike

Hi, I just learned that the Trig TT21 transponder has just received FAA TSO approval. I have ordered units which should arrive in about 2 weeks. You can see details and order now on my web site he http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/trig.htm This is a very exciting new transponder. It is very...

The new TSO'd TRIG Mode S transponders have been shipped from our US Distruibutor and will be here by the end of the week...and they do in fact have the US TSO approval as I mentioned earlier see http://www.wingsandwheels.com/page4.htm for details thanks tim Please visit the Wings & Wheels...

I'm shopping for bug wipers for my ASW27B, and am curious to hear from others with experience, especially in this model. Bug wipers are not very common in the US. Thanks John Cochrane

Could not find one on the SSA web site. Is this available anyplace?

I’ve got two questions for European pilots regarding the Form One, arising out of curiosity on my part. First, it appears to this US pilot that one of the uses of a Form One is to certify that a new part is airworthy, with the basis for airworthiness being that the part was made in accordance with...

I was recently contacted by my local FSDO (Scottsdale AZ) with a request to do a ramp inspection of my glider. He explained that starting this year, he is required to do "a ramp inspection and records review of every aircraft that is operating on an air racing and/or exhibition special...

Does anyone know the weight of the inner wing panels of any of the following 18 meter wings? Ventus 2cx Discus 2c ASG-29 Thanks, Greg

For those of you not already in the 1-26 association, we have another sad story of a glider pilot who has left us on this plane of earth. Vern Hutchinson, the USA 2008 1-26 champion, (awards in one year: old buzzard, old goat, old toad) and WWII veteran, died august 15th, 2009. He had traveled...

All, So in some of the recent discussions with SPOT about their upcoming products, they tell me that they have indeed surveyed their users about whether they would like to have altitude outputted. They have not (yet) told me how much extra it would have cost, but they said that the majority of...

I need to make a new section of the canopy on the Cherokee. Its a pretty simple bend, not really a compound curve or anything. But I dont know anything about how to do it. I suspect that I need to heat the plexi up and then weight it to bend, repeat as necessary? Im sure that several of us have...

Take a look at Ron Schwartz' flight in a 1-26 today, as shown on OLC. http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=758843 ALMOST 1,000 KM! 12 hours 14 minutes. Definitely the "Iron Butt" award recipient!

Holy Cow! I hadn't checked YouTube for a while. I'm amazed at the speeds they're getting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaQB16ZaNI4

This spring I have released two new products – flyWithCE Flight Recorder and flyWithCE Logbook. Flight Recorder is the smallest flight recorder on the market (and also the cheapest). It has built in internal antenna and memory large enough to record 100 hours with 1s recording rate interval...

Gliderports and Prisons - http://tinyurl.com/cd7sf4 Come to think of it, don't Tehachapi and Avenal have nearby prisons, too? Hmmm....

Recent Air Accidents/Incidents appear to have been very poorly reported by the press. Especially when light aircraft are involved. They are extremely unknowledgable, wether a paraglider (or other a/c) / RAF training a/c is involved?

I pulled the seat pan in my Ventus 2 for the first time to find the relief tube housing to be a 10 inch long sharp ended aluminum tube epoxied to the bottom of the fuselage. Needless to say if you have one of these in your glider I encourage you to get rid of it ASAP. I would hate to see what...

Well, It's been about 1 year asked about where to learn to fly gliders in Central FL on this newsgroup. Several of you directed me to Seminole Lake Gliderport, and my mom purchased an intro flight for me for my 37th birthday 6/21/2008. I did my 1st flight (my intro) on Dec 12 2008, and today,...

Has anyone had success with loading two 15m (Cobra or similar) trailers into one shipping container? Better yet, have the two trailers come out nicely at the other end? Seems to me that one needs to go above the other in a high-cube: Tail first up top and roll the other underneath... Or both the...