"Ralf S." wrote in message
We wave a guy who recently has been disabled by an accident. He still loves
to fly and now we're looking to adjust one of our two seat gliders for him.


you might be interested in joining us at International Wheelchair Aviators
(see the web site: http://www.wheelchairaviators.org/) -- it might be
valuable to talk to folks who have 'been there done that' instead of
reinventing the wheel.

Another source of interesting info about flying gliders/sailplanes
with disabilities is the Swedish organization called "Vi har fått vingar"
--- i.e., "We Have Got Wings" ; the problem is my information is not
particularly up to date, and I hope the addresses below are still
valid:

Vi Har Fått Vingar ("We Have Got Wings")
Pl. 662
S-741 00 Knivsta
Sweden

And the address of the National Soaring Federation of Sweden is:

Swedish Soaring Federation
Box 750
S-521 22 Falköping
Telephone: +46 515 371 51
Fax: + 46 515 371 58

what is interesting with the Swedes is that they have developped gliding
for people with disability quite a bit (apparently the Swedish Royal Family
is supporting the organization) and developped intesting hardware /
adaptations;

--Sylvain