Hi all, after a great 6 month trip around the US, from Florida up through Mifflin to NY, across to Ionia Michigan, and across to Ephrata WA, down to Montague CA, Minden NV, Air Sailing, Ely, Parowan UT, Val Air CO, Uvalde TX, Marfa TX, and now Warner Springs CA, I am heading back to Australia with...

Hi, I have just added a few used instruments to my Soaring Classifieds web site at www.soaring-classifieds.com. Good Soaring, Paul Remde Cumulus Soaring, Inc. http://www.cumulus-soaring.com

Someone recently posted a link to a video that showed a glider simply rolling downhill until it picked up flying speed. I can't seem to find that video. Help?

All - My DG-300's CG hook needs replacement (Tost p/n 028500, a right-hand side-mount, a "G-88" I believe). Unfortunately I've been told that there are none in-stock in the USA, and shipping from Germany is going to take several weeks. I have a contest coming up in just a couple of weeks, so...

The Twin II of our club has an empty weight of 415 kg wich, with a max. permitable total mass of 580kg leaves a max. payload of only 165kg......... Now we are trying to solve this problem because we want to ad an extra 20 kg of payload. so the payload can be increased to 185 kg the options are...

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of Slingsby Technical Instruction (TI) No. 109/T51, Issue No. 2. It is the inspection requried to comply with the wing spar AD. I can find a copy of Issue No. 1 and Issue No. 3. The problem is that the US AD on the dart is against Issue No, 2 and I am having...

Just noticed the Region 6 North contest going on at the moment and wondered how they work the handicaps for a combined 15M $ STD Class contest. It appears as though all the 15M are handicaped at 1.0 and the Std at something else. How is it done officially? Bob

friends of RAS: the Cherokee Kid had a wonderful weekend of killer cross country flying. Saturday I thermalled to 4000 AGL over the Ames, IA airport before setting out to the west only to find basically no worthwhile lift. Hoping to core some thermals coming off the Pufferbilly Days celebration in...

I would like to use the Cambridge 302 and 303 but have questions: 1- does it calculate the glide path above obstacles, e.g. a mountain is in the way: does the CAI 302/303 see the path going through the rocks or does it see that there is a challenge? 2- is there a possibility to see the...

There is a Cherokee 2 guy on this group that reminded me of a couple things. My old Fiat 850 was just about the coolest car to drive on the street. It isn't fast, it isn't quick, it's on skinny tires so it doesn't corner too well BUT you can dive bomb off ramps at 100 % effort, load the car up as...

Take a look at this cloud street! Too bad it's way out at sea. Would a feature such as this, resulting from a frontal boundary, provide the lift we seek in everyday cloud streets? Craig

Klaus Ohlmann flew, one way, 1600 km last Saturday. Sunday was 2200 km (goal of 2032 km) on Sunday. GA

Apart from the *better* handling of a fixed tailplane, is there any aerodynamic advantage of a fixed tail/elevator over an all flying tail? I can't help feeling that when the stick's not in the middle the fixed tail/elevator looks less efficient (And I used to prefer the light stick forces and...

Today made up for yesterday. The sky simply kept xploding with great white flat bottom cu's. The best climb of the day was SM with a 17 kt average over several thousand. Folks, these aren't vario readings, but the average climb over several thousand ft. seen on See You. Yep, all had great flights,...

I am deciding on a homebuilt project. I am considering a project like the classic Fournier motorgliders. I believe they are called touring motorgliders. Thr RF4 style or my favorite looking plane, the Schleicher ASK-14, is the type I'm refering to. Powered flight would be my primary purpose to...

Hello all in US-gliderland, Some time ago, there was an interesting article in Soaring about a glider being struck by a lightning. I seem to remember a photos of scourched sneakers, a blown out canopy and other damage. Can anybody tell me which issue of Soaring this was or if this article is...

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I have a spare canopy upper vent rail (clear, no cracks) that I would like to trade with someones spare canopy lower vent rail. I'm in the U.S.A. . Jim

I've been looking around the for-sale ads for sailplanes, and it seems to me if I am willing to spend between ten and twenty thousand bucks, there is a lot to choose from. There are plenty of older fiberglass sailplanes in that range, and some decently-performing metal ships like the 1-35. But...

Hello all, A bit of my background. I've been flying power for 3 years (300 hours ... I was "keen" g), and just finished a "concentrated" glider "conversion" over the past 3 weeks (12 flying days), and now have a "glider" license. Literrally "glider", as I've been trained to safely glide locally...