Musings on SOARING cover photos

Is there a rule stating the cover photo for SOARING
magazine HAS to be a sailplane?

I would doubt it. And why should there be?

I like the cover photo, showing the SSA headquarters
building at Hobbs, NM, in snow. It's a nice, seasonal,
shot of our organization's home base.

What else could go on the cover? Photos of:

Soaring pilots;
Soaring crew;
igc flight traces;
Screen shots from See You or Stre Pla;
Convention photos;
Tow planes;
Winches;
Glider fields;
And, surely those with an artistic touch have much
better ideas.

The cover photo doesn't have to show the ubiquitous
German glider.

As for the Best Ever photo? Has to be the one by Chris
Woods over the Wright Brothers Memorial, shot on 4
JUL 03.

Snotty
aka Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA

I'd like to know more about the glider on the March 1984 cover, and
where the photo was taken ...

btw that photo is he
http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/Soaring...84Mar_full.jpg

I've always kind of wondered what kind of urinals the SSA has in their
men's room. Why not a cover shot!

Ray Lovinggood wrote:



What else could go on the cover? Photos of:

Soaring pilots;
[snip]

Don't forget scenes from outlandings. We have had one on our Italian
magazine Volo a Vela:
http://www.fly-net.org/csvva/bibliografia/267.htm

here an index of our covers, from july 2000 to today:
http://www.fly-net.org/csvva/bibliografia/rivista.html

Aldo Cernezzi
"proud author of many of those shots"

I'd like to know more about the glider on the March 1984 cover, and

Why, that's the Rutan Solitaire, of course, winner of SSA's homebuilt
motorglider design contest. I'm too lazy to dig up my hardcopy, but it's
likely astronaut Mike Melvill on board. Or perhaps NASA test pilots
Enevoldson and Meyer whose data argued that canards aren't ideal for
sailplanes.

I like the cover photo, showing the SSA headquarters...

Ditto. Snow in Hobbs alone is memorable. A non-profit Sports Association
of some 13,000 having a building and full-time staff at all is pride
inspiring to me. Guess some folks don't appreciate the 50 years that SSA
was some file boxes in Ralph Barnaby's or Paul Schweizer's garage and on to
rented space in Santa Monica.

wrote in message oups.com...
btw that photo is he
http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/Soaring...84Mar_full.jpg

It's a Rutan Solitaire, unless I'm very much mistaken.

Self-launcher with an interesting engine installation concept. The
engine is placed in the fuselage in front of the pilot rather than in
the rear fuselage.

I seem to recall that one of them was built here in Denmark in the
late 1980's or early 90's, either from a kit or bottom-up from
drawings. I think it was sold out of the country a few years later.

Bo Brunsgaard

I agree, remembering Hobbs during the hot summer days, the snow picture is
refreshing. We also go snow this winter down on the Texas, Gulf Coast.

Fred Blair
"John H. Campbell" wrote in message
...
I like the cover photo, showing the SSA headquarters...

Ditto. Snow in Hobbs alone is memorable. A non-profit Sports Association
of some 13,000 having a building and full-time staff at all is pride
inspiring to me. Guess some folks don't appreciate the 50 years that SSA
was some file boxes in Ralph Barnaby's or Paul Schweizer's garage and on
to
rented space in Santa Monica.

Earlier, John H. Campbell wrote:

...winner of SSA's homebuilt motorglider design contest...

I believe that the event was actually sponsored by the SHA (Sailplane
Homebuilder's Association).

Thanks, and best regards

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com