The U.S. Junior Team has arrived in Italy and the first Day Reports are posted at the link below. As the flying starts for the 5th FAI Junior World Soaring Championships in Rieti, Italy, July 28 through August 11 more reports will be filed by the team. Mike Westbrook is flying a Discus 2b and Kathy...

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I'm trying to reduce the canopy reflections in my V2bx, particularly the refletion from around the air vent at the extreme forward end of the instrument cover. I've tried black electrical tape (a disaster) and felt-tip pen (not very effective). Any thoughts on effective surface...

what happened http://www.segelflug.de/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/showthreaded.pl?Cat=1,5&Board=Flugzeuge&Number=68917&page=0&view=expanded&sb=5&o=#Post68917 the...

Hello! Does anyone know, could I visit a gliding club in Argentina somewhere between August-Nov 2007 for a week? Our business expanded to Argentina and I am looking forward discovering the wonderful gliding country in depth, personally, from the air :-) Thank you in advance,

38°57'9.87"N 104°50'54.49"W If you zoom out and find the airport to the ENE, you can see a TP (same one?) and another AC landing to the south. Shawn

Has anyone heard if there will be a contest at Ionia in 2007? Dates? (The email address on website is bad) Curt Lewis - 95 Genesis 2

....flying a 1250 Kilometer (777 mile) triangular course in Nevada in 8 hours and 23 minutes at a new world record average speed of 149.23 km/ h (92.73 mph).. mo www.aerogazette.com ciao Rocco Caruso Aero Gazette

SZD Bielsko is in the final phase of testing of "new" 2 seat glider designed for initial and advanced training. It will be fully aerobatic with 17.5 m wings and with 20 m wings it becomes pretty good x-c sailplane with L/D of 41.8. The reason I am saying "new" with quotation marks is that the...

Anyone know where I might find a KI-13 compass? I believe it was what came from the factory on the SZD-55.

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Where is the right place to go? So far, some wading through the Grob Aerospace web has hinted at USA dealers specializing in jets and such.

Has anyone replaced weather-stripping seals on Avionic trailer? I got a quote of $350 for the seal. That sounds a lot for 50 feet of rubber. Does anyone have a resonable source for weather-stripping seals?

OK all, its cold (with an F), wet and dreary here in Oz, and time to fire up the dreams machine. What ship, down to 3 options- ASH26E 304S with Jet sustainer Antares 20E Which is your choice and why?

Mfg. 2000. Dark blue color. Excellent condition. Fresh repack with sale. $850 plus shipping. Correct phone # 706 777 9540 Rob

Mfg. in 2000. Dark blue color. Excellent condition. Repack with sale. $850 plus shipping. 705 777 9540 Rob

Anyone know where I can view the manual for this ship online? I'm scheduled to get some flight time in one next weekend, and I'd like to browse the manual ahead of time. Thanks, Dave

Does anyone have some recomendations on Soaring Sites in Switzerland? I'm going to be there in the first 2 wks of July and would like to spend a few days soaring in th Alps. I'm going to start at the Hahnenmoos Lodge for some model glider soaring, then I'd like to do full size, I have my own...

I started looking for news of the Region 6 contest at Ionia last weekend when their practice days started hoping the hosts or contest management would have some news...a current roster maybe or some sentence or two about the weather or at least a note if the was bad and unflyable. Here it is...

I have just uploaded Karl Striedieck's 1978 National Geographic article to my website: http://home.comcast.net/~johan.larson/soaring/thousand-mile-glide.html If you see any typos, do tell. Johan Larson