Does anyone have any pictures of the ASG 29 from the Minden mid air ? -- Mal

Any scores from the Region 3 contest yet?

OLC does not require expensive IGC-approved loggers. Garmin GPSMAP 76S on eBay, ~$200 or less. Besides, your club can use the help. ;) The Garmin is only good for the classic, not the triangles or club comp. It would be nice if we could all agree that the Garmins etc. could be used for the...

Perhaps a change for the better... Flying in the Sierras with some friends from Tehachapi, California City and Minden, we were treated to a radio transmission on 123.3 (perhaps repeated on 5) from a jet descending through 19,000 into Carson City: "...Anyone on the Pine Nuts?" The jet pilot must...

A nice HP-18 has been added to the "Trading Post" section of the Schreder Designs web site. (http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/Trading_Post/The_Trading_Post.html) It is located in Beloit, Wisconsin. Wayne http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder

Folks I was at Region 3, and I have to say that Tim Hanke and his staff did a fantastic job organizing and I must thank all involved. You guys were great! The Folks running the FBO were way out of line the first day we arrived there, I witnessed a line Guy screaming at the top of his lungs and...

The aft wing locks on my Grob G102 are just about at their limits and it looks like I will be installing oversize bearings to correct this. Does anyone have experience doing this and if so, how difficult of a job is it? Tim

I read a mention from a Tom Knauff newsletter, and the saw a description on the SSA racing tab. Sounds like a first, a contest getting booted.

Only 21 planes on the grid at storied Uvalde, TX for the U.S. Std. Class Nationals, even with three non-U.S. guests. This was apparently Uvalde's smallest contest of any kind, including regionals, and smaller even than most U.S. regionals. A "get your entries in while they're still available!"...

Folks, Just thought Id let you know that me and my trusty Cherokee II went about 95 NM downwind from Ames, IA today in medium midwest thermal conditions. Highest altitude was about 5100 MSL. Definitely have got silver distance in the bag, think I came up a little short on Altitude. Duration was...

John Good, pilot, crew and reporter extraordinaire is attending a Grand Prix event in France and while officially crewing for Doug Jacobs he is sending along reports about each days adventure which are posted on the US team web site. Learn about flying the Grand Prix, soaring the southern Alps, St....

Is it just me, or is the website down ? Limus

Is it just me, or is the website down ? Limus

2006 jet sailplane montage video and 2006 jet sailplane night show video posted at www.silentwingsairshows.com/video.html The night show video is best viewed in high resolution (60 meg file). BC

I bought 2-32 without a rear stick. If anybody has an extra stick they want to sell me, or if anybody could trace the shape of their rear stick and send it to me I would really appreciate it. I would also like to eventually put a CG hook in my 2-32, does anybody out there have drawings for a...

FYI...yesterday, Aug 30th, in South America.... Perlan obtained 50,700 feet... here is the site: http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/perlan-e.html Shawn

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:11:59 -0700, "Peter Duniho" wrote in : For example: under your interpretation of the rules, a balloon overtaking a helicopter in a hover would have the right-of-way and the helicopter would be required...

I'm wondering if the number of multiple postings of the same message are caused by some kind of system error. Or is it simply caused by people who post a message, then go to look to see if it came out right, don't see it, and post it again. I kind of doubt this latter, because the messages are...

Fossett claims gliding record (WOW : 50,699') Aug. 30, 2006. 11:42 AM BILL CORMIER ASSOCIATED PRESS BUENOS AIRES — U.S. tycoon and adventurer Steve Fossett, already famous for sailboating and solo ballooning records, claims to have soared to new heights in an engineless glider over the...

What soaring pilots have been talking about for some time has happened. Yesterday, in startling clear weather, with visibility measured in dozens of miles or more, a Hawker jet ran into a sailplane at about 13,500' (5,000' AGL or more) some 10 miles east of Minden airport. The sailplane pilot had...