I was looking for a couple small pieces of hexcel aluminum honeycomb. I want it for "airflow directionalization" project. Want the thermals to start flowing upward only ;-) Hexweb CR III or similar material Either 2 pieces of 4”x7” minimum or a single piece 7x7” min. I think any of these...

USA glider pilots, should the 20 Meter 2 Seat Class be included in World Championships? See http://sites.google.com/site/20meter2seat/ for further information. RS

The Soaring Safety Foundation (safety affiliate of the Soaring Society of America) will present a two-day Glider Flight Instructor Recertification Clinic as follows. Location: Long Beach, CA Date: April 17-18, 2010 You need not be a flight instructor to attend, and all are welcome. For...

Any one have a Cambridge L-NAV OAT probe they would like to sell? Please contact me off line Thanks r/Jim

USA glider pilots are encouraged to give their opinions on the proposed new 13.5 Meter Class. See http://sites.google.com/site/13meters/home for further information. RS

Anyone know of an available 1-34? Central Indiana Soaring Society is strongly interested in buying one of these gliders.

Thanks to the efforts of Tony Firman, you can now take a Google Earth tour of the local ridge and landing fields near Ridge Soaring Gliderport. Please visitt our home page: www.eglider.org Come fly in the spring. Tom Knauff

I had an interesting talk in Narromine last week with a local instructor about my LS6. I bought it because I thought it to have few vices. He knew one.One that almost killed him. Coming back after a racing task he selected +10 flaps, plenty enough to land with, especially when it's a bit...

Hi All - So in planning my vacation time this year (i.e. "Soaring time"), I was saddened to realize that there's no way I can make the Sports Class Nats at Parowan. :-( But I still want to attend a contest in addition to the Region 8 Regionals... I see the Region 9 North contest was pretty...

Has anybody used Clouddancer weatherproof glider covers? If so, what's your opinion of them? I'm especially interested in comments about weatherproofing and durability. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK

Many thanks to all the Vendors , Speakers , SSA Staff , Schreveport Soaring Society folks and other volunteers who made the convention possible this past week . It is a unique event in the Gliding World here in the USA and deserves the support of as many SSA members who can make it each time it...

Any reports from the Convention? Jet sailplane on display? NK vario? Interesting talks? Etc.

How about get a decent weather forecast before you go flying and don't even think about trying to fly in this kind of weather?

http://www.macworld.com/article/145805/2010/01/apple_event.html?lsrc=newsalert Now if only SeeYou, flyWithCE, Glide Navigator II, or someone (Dave) would make an app for this.

I agree with the sentiment that every two years is too long. How about choosing a location near the middle of the country to host the convention for at least three years running? I'm told by experts on the subject booking three years running opens the possibility of big discounts for the floor...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3155973/Gliding-on-to-a-world-record Article from New Zealand website with map showing the route. Impressive 15 hour flight in very cold weather.

Are any of the major manufacturers looking into making next generation models for the standard class? is there even much room left for developement here? what could really be improved? fuselages and tails seem more or less set, and any tinkering with wing planform and angle of incidence involves...

Trying to figure out a semi-economical way to get a Knott axle from Germany to NE USA. Convenient, fast, very expensive way has already been identified :-). No containers carrying gliders or trailers are known to be coming in next several months, so I think that option is out. UPS appears to...

When are we going to quit loosing sailplanes to poor tie downs? http://bit.ly/cgioFc

All, I've added support for Google Earth .KML files to the interactive turnpoint file generator on my website. You can now upload a turnpoint file for a contest site (from the Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange) and download a .KML file that can be opened with Google Earth showing those...