Lippmann in Germany reports a winch launch to 950 meters (3100'). http://www.lippmann.de/hoistline.htm Has anyone heard of a higher launch? Bill Daniels

Was so tried of the hard deck discussion thought I would try a discussion of dreams. After seeing the vision of Elon Musk with his Falcon Heavy, I had to pinch myself. Those two boosters landing in sync.. What are some of the innovative, new technology, original thought, scifi dreams, would you...

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No, I am not planning to buy anything for at least a year ... but I have often wondered what other "hidden" expenses or obstacles there are associated with buying a used glider. I regularly see older planes in the $10K USD range (which is well within my price range). BUT, for future reference,...

Hi I'm looking for a scan of a manual for a Dittel 720B radio. I can find manuals online for the A & C versions which are considerably different, and the few previous enquiries seem to have hit dead ends - but someone, somewhere must have one! I'm in the UK.

I am looking for some advice on the forms and process I need to go through, to buy a glider registered in the US. From what I can tell, I need a Bill of Sale (form 8050-2) and an Aircraft Registration Application (form 8050-1). It appears that the latter form is only available from the local FSDO...

Lark IS-28B2 1981, S/N 310, 449 hours TT, with open trailer. Standard Airworthiness Certificate, Radio with PTT and boom mic, Nose & CG Tost releases, Dual 12V batteries. Last annual Mar. 07 $18,000 email for pictures Ron 813-929-9100

Just for fun...... A long time ago, I was told that a compass correction card is required. I was also told it didn't have to be filled out. That may not be a good idea. No need to upset our FAA friends. GA

I have been very concerned about our club, which discourages cross country in club gliders. My thought is that purpose of soaring is cross country and if one just concentrates on flying above the airport then ones member ship tends to end when you have your license. We have many airports withing a...

Hi, we recently launched a petition against Flarm decision to encrypt their communication protocols. Although Flarm have the majority of the market for anti-collision systems there are others vendors and we think that monopolies are not a good things in any market and more important security comes...

Dear people, Last week, Sept 24 - Sept 29, 2006, the Glider U.S. National Aerobatic Championship contest was held at the Grayson County Airport (KGYI) in Sherman/Denison, TX together with the power U.S. National Aerobatic Contest. Contest results are posted he www.usnationalaerobatics.org ...

SZD Bielsko is in the final phase of testing of "new" 2 seat glider designed for initial and advanced training. It will be fully aerobatic with 17.5 m wings and with 20 m wings it becomes pretty good x-c sailplane with L/D of 41.8. The reason I am saying "new" with quotation marks is that the...

All, I've just embarked on a project to extract US (CONUS) airspace data from the FAA National Airspace System Resource files and process it into more accessible formats (such as OpenAir and Tim Newport-Peace). This is a little more complicated than it sounds, because the NASR uses ESRI shapefile...

Hi all, for those interested in the status of the project, here is a video of current development point, new features etc. http://www.bware.it/xcsoar/LK8000-1.12b.wmv The public version will be available for free at Xmas time. At that point it will also an opensource project, of...

Okay, neither my flight manual nor maintenance manual say what kind of fuses I should be using between the batteries and instruments. The printing on one looks to be T500L250V, which I understand to mean 0.5 amps, slow-blow, 250 Volts. (It's 5x20mm.) I know that to protect my wiring I need...

What we need in soaring is a new glider built for a reasonable price. $150,000 for a new glider is just not even a consideration for most people. Let's face it, you can get a low mileage Ferrari for half that price! The PW-5 was a terrible failure. The engineers made the wingspan too short,...

The original question stated a glider doing 100kts with/without 100kgs of ballast. Ignoring the stalling speed for the moment, Does anyone out there think the pull-up takes more than 4 or 5 seconds? Does anyone out there think that the sink rate of the unballasted glider at 100kts is more than...

Anybody have a new or used Mecaplex windows with green tint and scoop they would like to sell? Will also consider one without green tint.

What a surprise, just today my son brought me a great gift to fight off the flaming liberals at the gliderport. It is a Bulgarian AK47 with 2000 rounds of ammunition. Thank god that I raised this kid correctly, educated him and he achieved the status of a Structural Engineer, PE. He advised me to...

Just got one of these Apple gizmos and I'm curious what apps other glider guiders are using. So far I've found some nice non-aviation weather and mapping apps, so now I'm looking for a good NOTAM and aviation wx brief app. How about SPOT, XCskies, DrJack? Kirk 66