MY PREFERENCE ON COMBINING STANDARD CVLASS AFTER FURTHER REFLECTION (July 17th) After further reflection, I'm going to agree with Steve Northcraft and choose to group the STDs with the 15M (and OPENs if necessary). The 15M and OPENs are having trouble getting sufficient numbers as well. My...

Glasflugel Hornet 206. Total time 3,458 hours, aerotow only. Year of Manufacture 1977 Wings refinished in 1992 and fuselage refinished in 2002. All AD’s completed and fresh annual for 2004 Automatic Control hook-ups. Avionic Dittel ATR 760 radio with boom mic Blumenauer EFA1 electric vario and...

Stefan Melber, et. al., have just published an aerodynamic simulation of a Standard Cirrus glider. It's a scholarly work and will not be understood by most of us, but the pictures are informative and worth taking a look at. You will find a link to it at www.standardcirrus.org. It's a 1.2 MB...

I am located in Sydney / Australia and wonder what the pros/cons are to do a glider course in our winter instead of our summer. Weather here is generally sub-tropic and I guess comparable with South Africa or maybe Spain or Southern USA. Looks like a much nicer season to be out and about than the...

This may be a silly question - but are all metric altimeters configured with 'Zero at 6 O'clock' as I saw in France? I did not have trouble converting to meters/kilometers but I did have trouble quickly reading the altimeter with the zero at the bottom of the instrument face (especially on the...

Hello, We are installing a Tost E-85 tow hitch on a Super Cub. We wrote up a nice 337 for the Feds. They approved of the bracket we fabricated. However, they are refusing to sign off on the E-85 hook. Think we've run into the same Feds who tried to ground Bob Hoover. Anyway, they are saying...

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Haven't flown either one, but have flown the ASW17, and liked it. Would like to avoid gel coat issues. Thanks all, Rich

Hi guys I'm looking for a motorglider for a friend. He wants something like an SF25C with the L:imbach 1700EA or an SF28 Tandem Falke. We're quite prepared to look at something that needs some repair work. Thanks

It seems that a payout winch similar to those used for hang gliders might be useful as a more efficient alternative to auto tows. You can make better use of the runway length and have perhaps a safer launch with proper calibration. Is anyone using such systems? Are they practical? Are they in fact...

I noticed one thing: The ASK-21 in your video has "braces" (Dunno what they are properly called) inside the canopy that those of my future club don't seem to have: http://www.akaflieg-bonn.de/flugbetr/flugzeug.htm Or

USAF Request For Proposal: FA8617-10-R-6210 They need approximately 20 new gliders, several trailers, support equipment, spares and contract maintenance, for delivery at Colorado Springs, CO (USA) in the next two years.

I've browsed the old discussions on gelcoat maintenance to learn what I can before developing a maintenance routine of my own, for my recently acquired V2C. One thing not yet clear to me is the best way to use/apply 3M's Finesse-It II, which seems to be the consensus cleaner/polisher compound: With...

An annoying property of my Ventus 2C is that the safety harness does not hold me into the seat. When encountering turbulance my upper torso leaves the seat and my head ocassionally hits the canopy. The position of the shoulder strap anchors aft of the cockpit is high enough that no downward force...

Soaring Safety Foundation Seminar, Wednesday evening at the SSA Convention - Atlanta Three guest speakers will inform and entertain early arrivals to the SSA Convention in Atlanta on Wednesday, February 4th at 6:00 PM. Each year the SSA Convention traditionally begins with the SSF Seminar...

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My Discus2 canopy and frame fit a little too tight to the fuselage making closing difficult or impossible when it really heats up. In the winter it was much better, but still a bit tight. At normal temps. in Florida (90 to 95 degrees this time of year) in the shade, it is clearly too tight, since...

I wrote a new article on how to use computers to help judge glides. http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/soaring/docs/safety_glides.pdf or the first item here http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john.cochrane/soaring/index.htm#maccready This will probably end up in Soaring sooner or later,...

Hi, I am deeply saddened to have just learned of a fatal accident at the Ionia soaring contest. I don't want to post details because I don't know if the family has been notified. Contact me for details. I am not at the contest but have talked briefly with contest...

U.S. Team Day Reports - Day 1 & NCD Today, July 28, was a no contest day for competitors attending the 28th World Gliding Championships in Poland. Read all the reports on the SSA U.S. Team Web site direct from Team Captain John Good in Poland. See the links below for the U.S. Team...