Congratulations to young american glider pilots and their Club/FBO sponsors who successfuly applied for SSA grants in 2003. Brad Towne of the Caesar Creek Soaring Club won the Bultman award for his excellence as a ground crew worker. Garrret Willat (mentor: Gary Ittner) and Mike Westbrook...

Where is the right place to go? So far, some wading through the Grob Aerospace web has hinted at USA dealers specializing in jets and such.

The nifty postings by Gary and Garret reminded me that Mile High Gliding was visited 12/6/06 by a local news team. I thought that Bob (pilot) or Gunnar (TV pro) would have beaten me to a posting. The video link is: In this case, it was a...

A few months ago, Ralph Kolstad, our Kolstad committee chair, challenged the previous winners of the Kolstad Scholarship via SOARING magazine to see who could raise the most money for the Kolstad Youth Scholarship fund. He reported last week that he has raised most of the donations and matched...

We hope you Club and FBO leaders have given thought to recognizing one of your young line-crew workers and have prepared an application to send in to SSA by the 4/30 deadline. See www.soarcsa.org/ssa/ssay/byfs.htm . We really would like to increase the award's soar-selfishly stipend, currently at...

Our most recent Kolstad scholars (http://home.att.net/~midlk/klsthmpg.htm), Sylvia Szafarczyk (TX) and Kevin Christner (NY), are principals in the new US Junior Soaring Assoc. (www.juniorsoaring.us). Summer is the time to become eligible for the college grant by doing X/C flights by the Sept....

"Shawn" wrote in message ... Yesterday, Feb. 13th, at 6:01 am, the pilot of a Boeing 757 west of Denver made a PIREP with the following comment, " we went from idle thrust to FULL Power to maintain altitude due to Strong Mountain wave". Still...

...even I can achieve a stable steep approach: I... don't... need... no doct-or... ...the little "old" glass slipper: hallelujah, I-uh love her so... Ray may have made gospel swing, but Steve made it rock. What didja do there? I touched the sky!

Here's a plug for the "College and Youth Soaring" booth, #46, next to M&H, reserved by the Collegiate Soaring Association (www.soarcsa.org/ssa/coll/home.htm) with the new US Junior Soaring Association (www.juniorsoaring.us). "College", "Junior", and "Junior Team" shirts will be for sale with...

Thanks to TV's "Party of Five" and"Lost" star Matthew Fox (you probably read this newsgroup) for a fine brief explanation of why he flies sailplanes (apparently 5 years now), and what soaring is all about. This a couple of nights ago to late late night host Carlson Daly, who was game with the...

This would be more appropriate on a subset of news.ssa.org, I guess, but I'm not positive those newsgroups are online. Anyway, the nice update from 2003 Bultman winner Brad Towne in the Sept. SOARING (p. 4) reminds me to pass on some notes: KOLSTAD: USA Citizen, SSA member, Silver Badge (or...

Well, I did another 10 Young Eagle rides over the weekend. How about you? A reminder that if just one individual at every Club and FBO in the country would do a half dozen each month, the american soaring community could add 10,000 to EAA's total and bring them up to the 1 million mark by...

Wanted: Roadworthy enclosed 15m trailer in Southern California. Can be purchase or (better) tax-exempt donation. John H. Campbell Collegiate Soaring Association http://www.ssa.org/Collegiate.asp

Congratulations to our sport flying friends at the Experimental Aircraft Association for orchestrating the introduction to flight of 1 million kids 14-17! EAA achieved its ten-year goal mid-November just a bit ahead of schedule, in time for the Centennial of the Wright brothers' powered flights of...

As the gift-giving holidays loom, consider buying a USA Junior Team T-shirt. I have left-over stock in most sizes XXL to S and even a few Child sizes (a "junior" shirt for really "junior" kids?), colors tan, grey, and white (long-sleeve on white). Art by 3-time Junior pilot Joe Walter, details...

Wanted: Roadworthy enclosed 15m trailer in Southern California. Can be purchase or (better) tax-exempt donation. John H. Campbell Collegiate Soaring Association http://www.ssa.org/Collegiate.asp

Saw the interesting flick "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' yesterday. In one scene, I think in the offices of the mind-eraser company Lacuna, there is a soaring poster in the background. Looked like an overhead shot of an ASK-21.

As noted in the April SOARING, the application deadline for SSA's thank you to young ground crews is in a day or two. We only have a couple of applications in hand, so if you know of a deserving candidate at your operation, download an application and send it along by all means. ...

Looking for Winter brand diaphragm capsule TE compensator (no longer available new). It's one of those little cylinders (dappled grey, about 2" dia x 3/4" thick) with 2 connection nipples. --JHC

I have recently started gliding again after a long absense. I no longer have funds to support my power plane habit and am soaring as less expensive means of getting airborne. I am surprised to see that winch tows in the USA are still almost non existant. Why not. Surely a winch is much cheaper...