Vintage Home Gliding Movie(s)

One of our Texas Soaring Association (TSA) members, Dave White,
discovered a VHS tape in a dusty old drawer at TSA made by June Wiberg
who compiled and narrated all of her old glider days home movies from
the 40's to the early 60's and sent it to TSA. June was the wife of
Wally Wiberg, who owned a flying ranch in Grand Prairie, Texas that
became the home of TSA in the 60's and 70's. Wally owned the Screamin'
Wiener later renamed the Lil' Dogie.

Dave put the VHS tape on a DVD which I converted to mp4 and posted in
11 segments on YouTube with a little description. The tape has 8mm
footage of the 1952 Nationals in Grand Prairie featuring a few minutes
of the Horten IV flying wing (Rudy Opitz) and the RJ5 (Dick Johnson).
It also contained Torrey Pines beach landings, the 1955 Nationals in
Florida, the first flight of the Sisu, many, many LK's, TG-3's, Pratt-
Reeds, even footage of 1936 Wasserkuppe. More importantly, it has
lots of footage of gliding legends who were (are) still in their
youth.

Part 1 of 11 1952 - Texas Soaring Association
Gliders - Screaming Wiener, Lil Dogie, Pratt-Reed, BG-6,People - Phil
Easley, E. J. Reeves, Wally Wiberg

Part 2 of 11 1952 Nationals at Grand Prairie, Texas, Texas Soaring
Association
Gliders - Horten IV, RJ-6, Tiny Mite, People - Dick Johnson, Rudy
Opitz, Ken Jacobs

Part 3 of 11 1954 Texas Soaring Association, Gliders - AV-36, Flying
Plank, 1-23, TG-3, Pratt-Reed, People - Jon Carsey, Larry Gerlein

Part 4 of 11 1955 Nationals in Elmira, New York, Larry Gerlein, Rudy
Opitz, Bill Coverdale, Bill Ivans, 2-25

Part 5 or 11 Local Texas Soaring Association - Early 1950's, Lil
Dogie, TG-3, Minimoa, Wei he, Double Tow

Part 6 of 11, December 1958, First flight of the Sisu - Len Niemi,
George Coder

Part 7 of 11, February 1959, Torrey Pines California, Pratt-Reed, Baby
Bowlus, Joe Lincoln.Wally Wiberg

Part 8 of 11, 1948 Nationals, Sanford, Florida, Pratt-Reed, LK, E.J.
Reeves, Wally Wiberg, Fritz and Baby Compton

Part 9 of 11, 1948 Nationals, Sanford, Florida,L-100, Teco Teco

Part 10 of 11, Texas Soaring Association - Early 50's, Dick Johnson,
Ken Jacobs, Oats Schwarzenegger

Part 11 of 11, 1936 Wasserkuppe, Karl Bauer

Go to www.youtube.com and search for TSA Wiberg to find all 11 or
start he

TSA Wiberg Part 1 of 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAkpVnbWo3A


Bob O'Neal
Texas Soaring Association