Hi All, By request, I am posting my electric brakes vs surge brakes article/ rambling. It is much the same info as my post on the subject before, but written more in an article format. It is of course unfinished, but pretty much covers my thoughts on the subject. My apologies for any redundant...

With a few extra battery packs sitting on the charger... maybe, just maybe... http://www.gizmag.com/yuneec-e430-electric-aircraft/12036/ made in China... (Chiner if your in the UK ;) If it's successful, I bet bigger/more powerful ones will follow, which WILL be up for towing. -P

Anyone know the specs for the gas strut used on the SZD-59's canopy? The writing on mine is beyond reading and I would like to replace it (without paying the $ZD factory price or waiting weeks for the infos...) since mine is a bit soft. I've measured the shaft at 8mm and eye to eye being somewhere...

Anyone have one of those brass 200x50 (20mm axle) tailwheels laying around and want to sell/trade it? TIA, -Paul

Getting scammed!! I find this (ongoing/unfolding) saga of this 27 for 'sale' fairly amusing, some of you may also (or not...) http://www.gliderguider.net/yaBB/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1261311629/0 -Paul

I dunno... where do you need your glider towed? I typically can cover up to 1000mi/day, so it ain't no 1 week trip to get your ship to you on the east coast and vice versa. Paul Hanson paul at eaglebrandproducts dot com (51owe) 2two7-nine5two3

Anybody know what kind of glider is in this pic? http://picasaweb.google.com/104195682308066635043/Szeged2010WGCVisitor#5501525495077532370 #46 of this set: http://picasaweb.google.com/104195682308066635043/Szeged2010WGCVisitor# The only ships I know of with dihedral on the T-tail is the...

My next stupid question... how do I remove all elements of SeeYou from my notebook? I've gone into the control panel and removed the program. Even went into my disk and removed it there, then rebooted. I've looked up the help log on the subject and it wasn't particularly helpful (can't find SeeYou...

http://www.ssa.org/magazine/classifieds.asp Will someone please buy this thing already so I can stop scheming ;) -Paul

I'm having trouble finding someone simultaneously capable as well as willing to make a cable for my brake assembly for my ship. Spruce doesn't have any barrel adjusters, a common motorcycle part.... I want the fancy swaged eyelet ends on a 3/32 cable (Spruce also only offers .078 cable or I would...

Anyone out there have a schematic for a proper hp310 (hp3xx...) charging cable showing which pins/wires to bridge with which type/ value resistors for operating it using an external 5v battery power source such as the Socket Mobile Power Pack that they'd be willing to share? I think it's Gnd,...

Here's something you don't see every day. http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/07/15/roland-cernats-energy-efficient-oriens-glider/ Although it seems like there may be a 'little work' left to bring this to fruition, it is still gets me all warm and fuzzy to see people reaching in directions like...

Sadly, and all too closely on the heels of losing another beloved of our tribe, I just read this in my inbox: "We have received the sad news that Albert Uster, VSA Vice President and Treasurer Nominee was killed in a gliding accident in Saanen Switzerland

I just read this article on AOPA online and figured I'd sha http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2008/080731husky.html Way to go Bumper & Jan!! -Paul

Can anyone point me to some good sources for computer modeled pressure distribution charts for sailplanes? (particularly fuselages) I have googled plenty with little results so I figured I would ask here. I found some in my OSTIV publications I have looked through, but I have most of the Technical...

Kinda cool... http://www.barnstormers.com/eFLYER/2008/033-eFLYER-FA01-Soaring.html -Paul

http://www.pilotoutlook.com/pilot_training/parachute_rigger_menu

Anyone here know the diameter of a Jantar Std3 axle? (or SZD-59 axle, or any other Polish ship that happens to use the same axle...) My ships' far away and I'm scheming right now, lacking numbers. The manuals etc speak not of it. Thx. -Paul

http://blog.aopa.org/letsgoflying/?p=92&WT.mc_id=090313epilot&WT.mc_sect=blog not sure whow wrote it (presumably Val...) as they don't credit the author, but I thought is was pretty good, so Thanks to the author! -Paul

....can now be done year round on Condor since a SoCal scenery/ landscape has just been released. http://secure.simmarket.com/taburet-sw-california-san-diego-photorealistic-for-condor.phtml It's a high res payware scenery, with a lower res freebie on it's way out. Here is a thread about it for...