For Sale RC Allen A1050-02 2.5" Turn and Bank, removed (working) from glider two years ago. $245 + shipping Bill Dodson Tehachapi, California six six one 972-4417 email:bdodsonREMOVEANDINSERT"AT"xcor.com

I am interested in finding a competitve Standard Class Ship to use during the Standard Class Nationals this year in Uvalde. I would be happy to work out an arrangement to include swapping use of my ASW-27 as part of the deal. If anyone is interested, please contact me to discuss. My desire would...

Happy New Year Everyone! http://SoaringCafe.com is officially launching today. Our first significant post is about the Concordia Project. This post can be found at: http://soaringcafe.com/concordia/ by following the History link on this page. We are working with Dick Butler and the...

We have had a great first week with a number of good posts. We saw about 1700 visitors which we feel is fantastic for our first official week. Thank you to everyone that has visited the site and especially to those of you that have provided comments and feedback. Please consider sending us an...

The Soaring Cafe Team will be launching a new site this weekend to provide a more interactive experience for pilots, crews and friends. The*http://SoaringCafe.net will focus next week on the U.S. Seniors contest being held at Seminole-Lake Gliderport in Florida where it has been hosted for many...

Dear RAS friends, I have read with amazement and disappointment the responses to the recent thread "Soaring Community Consumer Warning". I've decided to start a new thread to provide my response to this issue, albeit with some trepidation. Please understand that I want to diffuse the issue, not...

A weekly digest of article posts for the Soaring Cafe is provided below. We hope you will visit the site and enjoy reading the articles, reviewing the latest photographs and classified ads, and following the latest on the Concordia Project. Please consider sending us an article, story, review,...

A weekly digest of article posts for the Soaring Cafe is provided below. We hope you will visit the site and enjoy reading the articles, reviewing the latest photographs and classified ads, and following the latest on the Concordia Project. Please consider sending us an article, story, review,...

1. Dust Up Soaring Competition-2011 in Ephrata, WA http://soaringcafe.com/2011/03/dust-up-soaring-competition-2011-in-ephrata-wa-4/ The Ephrata Dust Up is a soaring event which is organized by the Seattle Glider Council. The Dust Up is a three-day soaring event in which first-time-competitors take...

1. My trip to Ely, Nevada http://soaringcafe.com/2011/03/my-trip-to-ely-nevada/ I made a trip to the US with my ASH-26 in 2006. During my trip, I visited and fly at Julian, Moriarty, Parowan, Ely, Minden, Bishop and a few other places. The photo was taken on July 25th, 2006 from Ely, Nevada. I was...

Recent discussions about contest scoring have shown that it might be beneficial to review the history of contest scoring in the U.S. Here is a very brief overview. The first U.S. National Soaring Championship was held at Elmira, New York, seventy-three years ago. Three tasks were used:...

An outline of a talk on the Time Distance Task is available. It was presented by Joerg Stieber, the Chairman of the Sporting Committee of the Canadian Soaring Association. It resides on the web page of Canadian Advanced Soaring. The URL is www.sac.ca/cas/resources/resources.html I recommend this...

On the second day of this year's 15 Meter Nationals, Karl Striedieck chose the best direction for his flight and smoked the rest of the field. He made 63.7 mph, 8 mph better than the second pilot and 14 mph better than the third. Did he get 1000 points for this outstanding performance? No, he...

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On Friday, April 26, 1996 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-6, Ralph H. Woodward wrote: Need WX Block and WX Seal to complete season preparation. If you have any left overs or full containers I will gladly purchase them from you (970) 925-3960 or email Thank! Heh Woody what do you think of this stuff? Is...

Has anyone figured this out? I want to be able to have cannulas for all my clients for flying near Aspen, but $8 a pop for someone who may only use it once is pricy. I noticed medical cannulas are only about $2-3. Has anyone figured an way to adapt them to an EDS? Thanks!

On Friday, January 5, 1996 at 1:00:00 AM UTC-7, Frank Smith wrote: Last time I heard Aspen has closed own all un-powered flight out of their airport. Bob Woody lives there and has his Nimbus4 for sale because of this new (and bad) rule. In ...

Completely daft newbie question that I'm hoping will have a simple answer. Mention is frequently made of the term L/D, which I know is an abbreviation of Lift / Drag. For example, the L/D cited in an advert for a Ka6 recently was "L/d 33" If L/D is the Lift/Drag ratio, why are the figures...

According to my wife and my work schedule, I'm now grounded until Sunday, which has me climbing up the walls ... That aside, this could be a daft newbie question ... Does anybody know of any decent sites (or, at a push, books) that illustrate the various different types/makes/models of glider...

Since July, when I cashed in a "trial lesson" voucher at a gliding club in the Black Mountains of Wales and had my first experience of gliding, I've been lurking here but otherwise stranded on the ground staring wistfully at the sky. I'd warned my wife continually of what she was in danger of...