Darrell Collins, Historian at the Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, NC, will deliver the 40th Ralph S. Barnaby Lecture on Saturday, October 22, 2011. It will be held in the Visitors Center at the Memorial, and will be part of SOARING100, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Orville Wright’s 19ll flight that lasted 9…
Last weekend (Feb 5th and Feb 6th 2011) we had the strongest mountain
wave ever experienced in the Rhine valley. Altitudes reached were FL240 – not too shabby for mountains that are
only 1.500 ft high in average, isn’t it?
I’ve had the “opportunity” to be the pilot of a powered aircraft that suddenly turned into a glider a few times in my life. (Incidentally, none of those engine failures were in my current aircraft, so don’t be shy to come flying with me.) I love flying, but it’s never been anything like the free-as-a-bird, gentle-breeze-in-your-hair feeling I dreamt about as a kid.
Spectacular, rare, and awesomely powerful, the Morning Glory is a magnet for growing numbers of soaring pilots and scientists. Unique in all the world and shrouded in mystery, the Morning Glory arrives regularly each spring. Click here to learn more about this amazing phenomenon. Gloriamatutina View more presentations from Glider Pilot. Below is a recent…
Francois Pin found the old news reel on YouTube and sent it around to some friends. Hope you find it as interesting as we did.
Lee Kulkhe (the US PowerFLARM distributor) and Dave Nadler provided a prototype PowerFLARM unit for SSA Conference participants to see and hold. This unit was built in October of last year and been used by Dave as a development platform for the updated software. Dave has also flown with this unit. The unit is fully…
Paul Remde provided an excellent review of the latest in soaring instruments at the SSA Conference yesterday. He graciously provided his charts to us for posting at the Cafe. We hope you find them informative. If you have any questions, please contact Paul directly at www.Cumulus-Soaring.com. Soaring product market news by Paul Remde, Cumulus Soaring…
This analysis of U.S. contest scoring algorithms was motivated because I fly a lot of regional and national contests, and I often was in the position of not believing the scores posted on the day’s score sheet. However, each time I tried to do a simple calculation to check the scores, I quickly got lost…
Biography of Wallace Scott (1924 – 2003), soaring legend of the 60’s – 80’s, known for his straight-out, free distance soaring flights and his bigger than life personality. Holder of four FAI World Records; Straight Distance to a Declared Goal & Out and Return, 20 – time winner of the Lewin A. Barringer Trophy, US…
The Soaring Cafe broke 1,000 visits for a single day yesterday. The site is more than exceeding our expectations and we want to thank everyone who has stopped by to take a look and read an article — “Thank you!” We hear from people every day telling us how much they like the site and encouraging…
