I'm looking for a copy (PDF or else) of Dick Johnson's Flight Test Evaluation of the Discus 2, published in 1999. Any help would be highly appreciated. Cheers, Flavio

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The overrun brake on our Comet trailer is jammed in the "brakes- on" position, and has defied all attempts to free it. I understand there are nylon components inside the trailer tongue, so we don't want to try the time honoured option of heating it with a blow lamp. Does anyone...

I am looking for any club or airport that has installed a (set of) web cam(s) for online viewing of the airport and weather. It would seem that with webcams becoming so very low cost, and used computers nearly free, that other than the cost per month of the connection ( aprt of phone line costs?...

The Wikipedia article on Peter Masak is scheduled to be featured in tomorrow's update of the "Did you know" section of the Wikipedia main page as follows: Did you know...that American inventor Peter Masak developed glider winglets for gliding competitions that helped him win a U.S....

Hi Cumulus Soaring, Inc. and a group of Minnesota area glider pilots are hosting the 2007 Albert Lea Soaring Contest this spring. This is going to be the biggest and best soaring contest ever held in Minnesota. It includes the Open Class and 18 m Nationals and Region 7 Contest. Details are...

Anyone have this, you can email to me if you wish. Klaus was a fixture at Truckee, Salida and finally Parowan. Last I heard he moved to Portugal. Likewise, what about the whereabouts of Guenther Jacobs?

I am a college student and pilot (recent CFIG) with 230 hours in gliders and 215 Hours in Power Planes (Towpilot) My dream is to fly in my first contest (the region 7 May 28 thru June 3 in Albert Lea, MN). I am checked out in the following gliders: Duo Discus, LS-6, Discus CS, Grob 103, Grob...

Get ready for standing around in the summer sun waiting for a tow ... Harbor Freight has a UV meter on sale for $10! Some web sites are selling it for $25-$30, so it appears to be a decent model, though I have no direct info on it. ITEM 93469-2VGA. -- Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA *...

Duck (duct) tape can be used over and over. Not as good as masking tape. GA

Hi, I have recently imported a Discus BT into the UK. The glider has FLARM fitted with the antenna mounted under, and parallel to, the coaming. The FLARM installation manual states that the antenna should be mounted vertically. Mounting the antenna vertically under the coaming means feeding it...

Free Duster Card Model Promotion Continues Until Wednesday. Here is the link for the model: http://www.wsam.net/fgac8h/DUSTERf/ http://www.fiddlersgreen.net Fiddlers Green is a commercial site with close to 500 downloadable paper models. Card models, i.e. paper models of airplanes, not "folded...

I will be in Cuzco, Peru for about three weeks in May and was wondering if there are any soaring sites in the area. So far I have had no luck finding any in Peru at all. Thanks, Tim

What would be the average cost of a ground loop damaged repair with a "boom snapped off", some other undefined damages none structural one wings. In other word not a "right off". I know, it all depends, but I just want to get a sense of the range of the repair cost. Maybe some of you, which had...

...test features and make suggestions on the latest release of Glideplan. It's great to have so much support from the folks using the software! At the risk of spamming, if you have considered picking up a copy, the introductory pricing ends tonight at midnight. Also, GlidePlan 1.2, scheduled for...

A few years ago I got a non owners policy through the EAA. The company doing this for EAA is Falcon Insurance Inc in Kerrville, TX. The policy covered experimental powered aircraft but NOT experimental gliders. The underwriter is Global AAU. After some research I recently changed my non owners...

Hi, A good friend of mine has invited me to join him at Mile High Gliding in Boulder, CO for about 3 days if the forecast looks good for wave. If the forecast is good I'll fly out sometime between Sunday and Tuesday evening for 3 days of soaring. Can anyone in that region give me their best...

On a recent thermalling flight with a friend in the front seat I commenced a high speed run from 3000 feet to lose height and demonstrate glider flight at higher speed. I trimmed out for 100kts and flew a straight course until down to about 2000ft where I then turned left 90 degrees. This took...

Hello, I was asked to add a second mic to our Twin Astir (it has mic only on the front seat), can someone give an idea on how should I connect it? can I just connect it in parallel to the existing one? Thanx, Yuval

Does anyone need anything shipped from Germany to Australia (Sydney) within the next 2 months? I'm importing an empty trailer for a Duo Discus so there's lots of spare space in the container.