I am writing to ask you about the woodstock , duster or briegleb plans. My name is Gustavo Balocco from Argentina. I am a gliding pilot and an instructor gliding. I am interested in making my own glider but I could not find an available page on the net where I can buy the plans of those gliders. I...

Short clip on soaring. Very nice. Enjoy it. http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=55PrYJUEK0A

It was mentioned during a talk Kai Gertsen gave at the Region 1 contest this year that it is a good idea to call 911 if you land your glider within sight of a road or other humans. The problem has been in the past that many times the glider outlanding is called in to the authorities as an airplane...

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OK All, So I've been 'round and 'round trying to figure out the right glider to buy (all year). I'm sure you all are getting tired of me by now! :- P But I have a related question for you (for once that does not involve a "Which glider is better" question): How detrimental to performance are...

On July 2 (a day with blue skies, a few scattered CUs and typical east coast haze) a friend and I were thermalling our ASW-20 and ASW-19 sailplanes at 6,000 feet 3 miles SE of Blairstown, NJ (a clearly marked glider port some 40 miles from Newark Airport and Teterboro Airport). My Zaon MRX alerted...

Recently a set of DG-600 wings have shown up for sale. They are damaged but don't apear to be beyond repair. I'm considering using a these wings for an experiment I've been toying with for some time. . I've never seen a DG-600 in person so I could use some help with a few basic questions. What...

Cover up the face. The Cambridge 302 vario needle can fail to zero correctly at power up. The instrument uses a light source and photo sensor to find the zero position. If bright light overpowers the light source then the needle can fail to position properly. Sometimes it goes around in circles...

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All, Some of the recent RAS articles about SPOT got me thinking that this is a nice device with some important safety features. I decided to do a quick and dirty analysis of the benefits of the SPOT device versus the various ELT/PLB devices. Both basically fulfill the same function, which is to...

For news, messages and pics on the South African team in Rieti see the forum at: http://sssa.org.za/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?783 only 1174 visitors so far!

Has anyone read this? What is your opinion? Tom Knauff certainly doesn't provide any facts to support his conclusions. The following statement in particular should anger each glider pilot, CFIG and examiner: "The point of this is the demonstrable fact that most glider pilots do not have the...

Hi, I'm looking for any IGC files from the 2006 std class nationals at Uvalde. If you have one or more you'd be willing to share, please email to me at TIA,

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This morning I started getting a Norton intrusion attack warning when attempting to open the SSA website. Norton stated it was a "High Risk" problem associated with a script called from W32.9966.org. The SSA website's source code does indeed have a W32.9966.org script call. A Google search...

I'm about ready to splice on a good fin & boom to a badly broken Puchacz fuselage. Made a clean cut 56" aft of the aft lift fittings, glued in a sleeve, jigged up the two pieces (both sides straight, top & bottom straight, fin vertical, lift fittings horizontal), spliced the push-rod, hooked up the...

The Albuquerque Soaring Club is in need of two of the forward weights for our G-103. The new empty weight in the front seat of our Grob is up to 170 lbs. and we need to ensure our lighter pilots are not required to wear divers weight belts along with numerious bags of lead shot in order to remain...

It is time for a major overhaul of the US Nationals system. With time constraints and cost it is making the single national approach outdated. We have discussed the idea of super regionals or multiple nationals. I think it is time to seriously look at these alternatives. We have to recognize...

I am curious if any one knows what just the fuselage weighs for their single seat sailplane. Cheers, Brad