The WDA was started in Jan, 1992. It got off to a slow start and then became rather dormant for a number of reasons. In an effort to revitalize this worthwhile cross-country soaring program an article was prepared for SOARING magazine (see Sept, 2004 issue) and the SSA has finally listed...

Well done to the british team Std Class 1st 15m Class 4th 18m class 2nd and 3rd (Steve and Phil Jones, 1st time brothers have been on the podium?) Open Class 4th Not bad for a soggy little island Nigel

Congratulations to the British Gliding Team on their success at the World Gliding Championships which ended yesterday at Rayskala, Finland. After two weeks' racing, the British team won the overall team cup, winning by a large margin from France and Sweden. Brothers Steve and Howard Jones took the...

Anyone have today's (18th) task or an update? www.worldgliding2005.com DNS is hosed up at the moment. They were trying to get a more robust server enabled, but looks like the route announcements are troubled for now. TIA, Frank Whiteley

I am in the middle of preparing the world membership report for the March IGC meeting. All but three countries have furnished their returns, and repeated emails to the IGC delegates for Poland, Belgium and Austria are ignoring my request for membership figures for their countries. Can anyone help...

Hi, http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/exclusivevids/HumanPoweredOrnithopterFlight_203330-1.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpobKBR6n9U - be sure to watch it in HD for best picture Very cool! What a lovely machine in flight! Congratulations to the designers for a job well done!

Thought this might be of interest forwarded from another forum. Rob On November 9, 2004 a team started at Porta Westfalica in Germany for a World-record flight, by which a glider will be towed over 11.900 km from Porta Westfalica in Germany to Naua Naua lodge in Namibia in Africa. On this flight...

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/e3eycgl9850dcku/SierraWaveWorldRecordDay_20150405.mp4?dl=0 Sunrise to sunset - about 9MB size Later on I may add airports/TPs wit hairspace. But, for now just wanted to grab the sat imagery raw data before it disappears on Unidata and the IDV program. More charts, and...

Our club recently did a gliding promotion in support of the "Big Day Up" national gliding day in New Zealand. We managed to do 155 "trial" flights with 4 twins & 2 180hp towplanes in a little over 10.5 hours. That included one hour wih only one tow plane as the other "broke" and we had to organise...

Can anyone think of a reason why there are separate mens & womens world records? The ease of 'relief' is the only disadvantage I can think of for women. I'm not saying that I think there shouldn't be! Nick.

Hi, I received a question from a customer today that I couldn't answer. He is going to fly in the World Gliding Contest in Argentina soon and couldn't figure out whether or not his Cambridge GPS-NAV would be acceptable to the contest - since it is no longer approved for world records. I can't...

Where did the World Wide Turnpoint Exchange go? This link does'nt work for me http://acro.harvard.edu/SOARING/JL/TP/HomePage.html

My saved link for this site now returns a "forbidden" page for an apache server. Any ideas?

Where are the soaring turnpoints located at now? The following link is not availble...http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/TP

Not since Pez D. Spencer have I found much in the way of humor in the gliding world. I am willing to bet there is some good content in the OLC database, whether it be the result of mild hypoxia or genuine comedic talent, let's hear about it! (yeah, it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere)

Unfortunately, there are some issues with the primary site (soaringweb.org, and the mirror sites soaring.geichhorn.com, soaring.guenther-eichhorn.com, and soaring.gahsys.com), so their content may not be up-to-date, with a restoration of service probably not before the end of August ;-( However,...

I am sitting at a Denny's in Titusville, Florida waiting to go to the visitors center at the space center with a friend who has tickets to the big show. Gonna watch the Space Shuttle take off up close and personal. The ultimate glider if you will....and hell....even if you won't. Walt

Do we have a unique situation? My daughter, much to her dads delight, has decided to take up gliding. Last weekend we signed her up as a member. She has also brought along another teenage girl who will sign up this weekend. At first I thought having two teenage girls at once in a single club might...

Has anyone any idea what the worldwide glider fleet is. I vaguely recall someone having a stab at it some time ago but does anyone have the numbers by country. Even by continent would be a start. TIA

I updated my page to include a link showing how to access 15m resolution satellite photos for most of the world. This link has better resolution than the link for the US. The images are already projected to a simple XY latitude/longitude grid as needed by...