A dollar a mile in 2007. I see some interest in classic "straight out" cross country flying (and the art of crewing). Classic XC soaring for distance as done by Robert Kronfeld, Philip Wills, Woody Brown, Dick Johnson, Fritz Compton, Stan Smith, Al Parker, Wally Scott, Ben Greene, Henry...

From AOPA (see Chapter 14 re. glider operations). This will be very important reading for glider operators / clubs sharing public use airports that have received Federal grants. (See "Grant Assurances".) On the FAA website at: ...

Information alert -- USA. FAA Airworthiness Directive 2010-08-01 for Blanik L-23 sailplanes. Cracks have been reported in 7 Blanik L-23 elevator / stabilizer "inner" hinges by EASA (Europe.) Inspection per the Blanik Mandatory Inspection Bulletin # L-23/052a (dated March 2, 2010) for cracks must...

USA / as of April 26, 2010: Your Blanik L-23 is grounded unless you have complied with FAA AD 2010-08-01, which refers to the work specified in LET/Aircraft Industries Mandatory Bulletin MB L23/052a. This bulletin describes the non-destructive testing for cracks in the inner elevator hinge. So...

Several "first of the year" flights in my new ASK-21 in thermals to 8,500' msl. (Marfa airport is almost 5,000' msl.) Beautiful Lennies 100 miles north over Guadalupe Peak on the New Mexico - Texas state border.

Cliff Robertson, friend and promoter of soaring. Sep 10, 2011 Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in "PT-109," won an Oscar for "Charly" and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, died Saturday. He was 88. His secretary of 53 years, Evelyn...

The FAA has granted the privilege (for which I am honored and grateful) to travel most anywhere around the USA (plus Alaska and Hawaii) to conduct your glider pilot checkride for PVT, COM, INITIAL CFI, CFI "add-on", CFI Renewal and a Reinstatement of an expired CFI-Glider. As your Designated Pilot...

VID-20190321-WA0015.mp4 Hope the kid is alright.

Just saw this advert in Barnstormers.com The nicest gliderport in the USA in my opinion. The swimming pool makes it so. http://www.floridaairparkhomes.com/property-for-sale.html Rich Owen: Please reply if anything about the advert is not true.

Favored sailplane for 15 meter Club Class contests with the wing incidence factory mod. Spacious cockpit for larger pilots. Good factory support from US dealer or Schempp-Hirth in Germany. 1972. 667 hours total time. Annual Feb 2020. Always hangared or in Eberle Trailer since I acquired it in...

Marfa Gliders Soaring Center near the Davis Mountains and Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas is NOT closing. Just a nasty rumor. Downsizing, yes. Closing, NO! I just sold a couple of gliders and my '46 J3 Cub and still own 7 aircraft, including two towplanes for year-round aerotows plus...

When Bob Ball (R.I.P) brought his his nice (never a club ship) Schweizer 1-36 to fly wave at Marfa, TX and sold it to me in 2004, he kept the home-built trailer as it was apparently a "universal" box trailer for his other sailplane. As I contemplate selling it I'm seeking an open or closed...

Just downsizing (I'm not retiring or closing) at Marfa, Texas! Photos and more details by e-mail only (no texts / no phone calls) to burtcompton (at) aol (dot) com Offered for sale: 1946 Piper J3 Cub C-85 hp. (Recently restored by a specialist in wooden gliders and Cubs. Grove brake mod, Scott...

Initial CFI-Glider Boot Camp April 11- 19, 2018. Plus PVT, COM or CFI-Glider "add-on." Come prepared and get it done! Discuss details and dates with me via e-mail at: marfagliders at aol dotty com

The SOARING SAFETY FOUNDATION (SSF) invites you to participate in our training and safety presentations during the Soaring Society of America Convention at the Reno Convention Center, next to the Atlantis Hotel, February 28 through March 3, 2018. The Soaring Safety Foundation (SSF) Seminar...

Just added invitations from clubs in New Mexico and Washington state to my itinerary for free Site Surveys this year.

"Kiss A Dirt Road In Texas (sang the drummer in the band.") Enjoy it on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOmx3FAPGIk&feature=em-share_video_user A new music video (with my ASK-21 sailplane) written and sung by J. Brian King about my wonderful life as a flight instructor and musician...

See it fly: https://www.youtube.com/embed/vOy_RnaymL0

Our Soaring Society of America (SSA) Convention is just over a month away, FEB 17 - 20 in Greenville, South Carolina. Meet legends of aviation, racing pilots, designers, flight instructors, eager young student pilots and bunch of nice folks from around the world. (For me, our biennial SSA...

Right or left, it doesn't appear to matter. Burt Marfa Gliders Soaring Center, southwest Texas.