Bob Gillan still instructs regularly for us at Central Indiana Soaring . WW 2 Navy Instructor, School Teacher for many years and a lifelong Farmer - Probably busy with the harvest right now.

As we all know soaring has it's challenges and risks. So does building & flying your own plane. Check out this link and read the second paragraph for details on the danger facing us. www.rv-8project.com/good_bye_to_soaring.htm My question is if soaring is so dangerous why when you go to the...

It should have been said Bob Gillan - 87 year old Instructor still active with us at Central Indiana Soaring .

You can trust a tree, but you can't trust a glue. Due to a catastrophic in-flight failure of a Robin DR 400 wing, the French authorities discovered badly glued wingspars in a lot of airplanes of this type. Consequently, reinforcements have been made mandatory (C.N. 2003-348). To see how this is...

A new cable network is launching a National extreme sports channel. 24/7 of nothing but extreme sports. Clayton Entertainment is a full service production company that is currently looking/casting/searching for the newest craze in sports. If you know of or have a group of friends, club, or family...

White Sands Soaring will hold a 3 day contest over Thanksgiving day weekend in Alamogordo, NM. This will be a 3 day contest with only your best 2 days counting. Daliy prizes and for the top 3 places. The only cost will be tows @ $30 and will be to 2,000 ft agl, You must land back at Alamogordo for...

Hi all I have for sale my dearly loved Canadian registered Standard Cirrus 75 - Canadian registration C-GGXT - Serial # 612 (member of Standard Cirrus Newsgroup) - 760 total hours ..... no damage history - totally refinished about 1996 or so, and still in excellent shape. - Borgelt B100 computer...

In the Rochester area 92 year old Ed Seymour is an elder statesman of soaring. Ed still instructs as well as being a tow pilot for the Finger Lakes Soaring Club. We still try to emulate his soaring prowess when he flies his K6E. Ed has been soaring since he was a teenager and he is a member of the...

I am considering a B100 for my glider and as in the header I am trying to get an idea of it's value. I looked on the Borgelt site and he has not got a manual listed so I can get a better idea of it's capabilities Any comments from user's. gary

Thanks for all of the advise. I may have to get a glider in between 30 and 35 ld. I am concerned about getting in deeper than I should and not having fun. It is possible that I should get a club class glider due to my hang gliding experience (tighter turn radius?). A PW5 or Russia may be an...

bla, bla, bla just testing, sorry for the inconvenience. Norb@s (Lak12)

US Team Junior News, Calling US Juniors The second edition of the US Team Junior News will be mailed out soon and all US Junior soaring pilots are invited to sign up and receive their free copy. Brought to you by US Soaring Teams and the US Team Committee, this edition of the Junior News is packed...

Hei, our ASK-13, LN-GBQ, is for sale. The glider recently (1999) had an extensive overhaul, and is in very good condition. For more info, see: http://www.wavecamp.no/2005/ln-gbq/ or contact mr. Hans Langan at email: phone: +47 934 22 441

Hi Guys, My LS-6a makes some serious humming noises. Not wind noises, not loose gap seal tape noise, not noises from the glider not being aligned with the airflow, not noises from my gear doors. The noise is like a loud revirberation or resinance or loud humming coming from the rear of the...

i am searching for any studies / info on the variation of rising versus sinking air & specifically the variation of the maximum rate of rising air within convective thermals. i am curious how this max lift rate changes with thermal size / total thermal energy. are larger "spikes" due to smaller...

One of our club members has been approached by a local newspaper reporter wanting to do story on him. It seems the reporter was tipped off that he may be the oldest glider pilot in southern New Jersey. The subject of the story would be Otto Zauner, a name that may be familiar to many of you who...

There is a small community in the foothills of the Appalachain Mountains in North Carolina, USA, named 'Thermal City.' No kidding! Take a look at the state road map: http://207.4.62.65/GISftp/default.asp?directory=\DOTStateTravelMap &download=rutherford.jpg It's located at approximately 35deg...

One-of-a-kind Glasflügel Mosquito with new gelcoat for sale, price Euro 21.000. Check the details at http://www.segelflug.de/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=18917&exact_match=on&query=retrieval -- Replace numbers with post1.tele.dk to e-mail me...

Hi! In the beginnig of this season our club's Super Blanik was damaged in a hard landing. The wreck is for sale either for parts, or the whole plane. With/without instruments and radio (Dittel FSG-71). The damaged areas start from the aerotow release, the bottom of the fuselage was flattened. The...

On the Polish newsgroup there appeared a posting regarding an incident = of Puchacz that occured on 2.10.2004 in Gdansk club. Its stick (in front = seat) has broken near the main screw that fixes the stick, due to tired = material (there was a growing crack). The glider has circa 1500h flown. The...