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Soaring Cafe was down for IE users earlier today.

Sorry for any inconveniences caused by the Cafe being down for a while for Internet Explorer users.  Our Facebook plugin had some corrupt code which caused IE to simply abort the page load once the code was encountered.  We will keep a close watch on this for a while.  — WE

February Wrap-up, The Cafe is Going Strong

The Cafe, continues to have a steady stream of regular visitors, as well as many new visitors each day.  Rand and I regularly get very nice emails telling us how much people are enjoying the Cafe and find it to be their daily stop to catch up on what is going in soaring while enjoying…

Soaring Cafe adds Facebook

I have been working for the past few weeks to figure out how to connect with our Soaring Cafe Facebook Fan page.   Well, I have think I have figured it out and seem to have it setup. You will now see Facebook Share and Like buttons all over the site.  This will provide more…

Just out! A new book about Einar Enevoldson

Author Bertha Ryan, covers the life of Einar Enevoldson from his childhood determination to fly to his life as a pilot soaring above the earth in every type of aircraft imaginable. Einar Enevoldson is forever connected to the world record altitude flight he and Steve Fossett made to about 51,000 feet, but that is just one of his amazing flights.

ATMOS-SFEER: An ASH-25 Flying in the Alps

To continue with our best video series, Kees van Schaick sent us the Youtube link below of an award winning gliding video in The Netherlands. Like Kees, we … hope you like the external shots from the ASH 25 flying over the stunning Italian Alps and feel that this footage is worth [the mention] on [our] website…

Einar Enevoldson Elected to U. S. Soaring Hall of Fame

Einar Enevoldson, who with the late Steve Fossett in 2006 made a record-breaking 50,671 foot sailplane flight in Argentina, has been elected to the United States Soaring Hall of Fame. He will be inducted at a banquet at the National Soaring Museum on Harris Hill, Elmira, NY on May 7, 2011. Enevoldson was a civilian…

Ritz Interviews Bruce Cooper

Enjoy the interview with Bruce Cooper, who flew a new world record in a double seater Nimbus 4 DM, on December 25 2010, from Bariloche in Argentina with French pilot Jean Marie Clement; 1.650 km. triangle. It took them 15 hours and 38 minutes. Bruce is from the UK, is semi-retired as airline pilot, owns an ASW27 and as he says, “we go a long time back”!

Chile Soaring Grand Prix Video

This post marks the beginning of a new category, Great Soaring Videos, for the Cafe that we hope will be enjoyable.  Sean Fidler posted a link to this one on RAS last week.  As he said, This is a great one.  It is shot in up to full screen 1080i so it is by far…

Soaring Cafe Latest and Greatest

Blogs are interesting websites to work on.  We are not quite sure how to characterize the Soaring Cafe — is it a blog, is it an “e-zine”?  The site is built on a blog engine, but that really doesn’t seem to make us a blog. Robin Clark particularly liked the Cafe aspect of our title…