With the greatest of regret I write to inform that Bill passed away in the early hours of this morning at a cottage hospital in Bishops Castle, Shropshire. He had been ill for the last couple of months. He regularly frequented these pages. RIP Bill. Luke

Hi all, I recently purchased and SHK-1 and am looking for advice from other owners regarding refinishing. Any SHK owners out there? Thanks! Bill

A reminder for distances: American Falls, Hailey and Picabo are just short of 1000k. Pocatello 1002k Bear Lake Co 1003k Coleville 1007k Sun River 1008k Soda Springs 1026k Bend 1026k Arco-Butte 1040k

I have a PowerFlarm Core, an Oudie-2 running SeeYou Mobile, and an LX Flarmview. I would like to use both the Flarmview and the Oudie as displays for the Powerflarm. The RJ 45 connector on the PowerFlarm is occupied by the Flarmview. I would like to connect the Oudie into the DB9 plug on the...

New RAM Mounting Arms for LXNAV FlarmView, FlarmView2, Nano and Nano3 RAM-A-FV-Std: http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/cumulus.htm#RAM-A-FV-Std RAM-A-FV-L http://www.cumulus-soaring.com/cumulus.htm#RAM-A-FV-L Best Regards,

I just replaced the safety harness, belts, in my DG303 Acro as the maintenance manual recommends this step after 12 years of service. I am selling this safety harness. It is in good shape and release mechanism works fine. 4 point Schroth Straps are blue. Manufacture date 03/98

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The Inaugural Club Class race in America is now in the books and it has been FUN! I want to thank the 15m National folks for allowing us to be a part of their contest and to fly with them at Cordele, Georgia, USA. If you don't know Cordele, I can tell you it is a fantastic place to fly. There...

Walter Dittel 15"boom mike $120 W&W Dynamic 20" boom mike $60 both in good working order O.B.O.

I'm looking for recommendations on where to get my Dittel FSG 71M radio repaired. Antenna and mic are good. It's not transmitting more than 200 yds. Thanks in advance, Steve

Can I tap into the groups collective wisdom regarding the best process to use when buying a used glider from another private owner. My first purchase seven years ago was easy, but I'd like to refresh my memory on all the things to do, and more importantly what not to do. The glider is nearly...

Tom Knauff reported a fatal accident at Ridge Soaring on July 14th in his most recent newsletter, but he did not disclose the pilot's name. Can someone please post this information? Thank you.

please see http://www.hph.cz/ now with close to 30 new 304S sailplanes on order! (short summary) 11/07/2007 - 304S Shark - extremely successful and interesting Europe Tour I want to thank all pilots and potential customers for all flight hours, starts, practical remarks and...

I've heard they employ a rather revolutionary ballast system for those occasional booming days which utilizes fuel - guess it's lighter than water! Just need to start loading the wings around 3am to be ready for a launch at midday! What's Vwinch - any ideas? Dave

Desert and Summer Flying, Thursday, July 12, 2007, starting at 7:00 pm Speaker Cindy Brickner, CFI-G Caracole Soaring, Discussion regarding summer and desert survival, and techniques of summer and desert operations. For reservations, contact Richard Mend by TELEPHONE at (818)...

On my way out to Jean (southbound I-15 out of Las Vegas) Saturday morning I passed a truck pulling a Cobra trailer with K3 on the "tail". I was kinda' hoping they'd be stopping at Jean to fly a bit, but they didn't. Anybody know who it was? Jim

hi we http://www.soaringchillies.com are still looking for soaring reporters preferential native speakers. more info by mail. best regards arturo

KM, Would you kindly publish the contest dates and locations for the US Nationals 2008 again? Thanks, Sam.

The Horizontal Stab. is held in position by a captive bolt that is prevented from backing out by a spring steel wire that slides through a slot in that bolt. Mine just broke. Does anyone have experiance with that little wire and it's replacement?

Al Santilli is dead. Long live the legend. For a good portion of his life Al made his home here in the Albuquerque area and was a along term member of the Albuquerque Soaring Club. Al's huge contribution to soaring will not be remembered by his contest performance, nor by his development of new...