I am very saddened to learn that my friend and mentor Frank Paynter (TA), a long time Soaring Cafe contributor and racing enthusiast has been dealt the terminating blow from the SSA. Their decision from Frank’s email to me summarized is: No contests the rest of this year, no Seniors, no Perry, and no Nationals next year, anything past…
Frauke Elber of the Women Soaring Pilots Association (WSPA) informs us that WSPA is raffling off ‘Spirit of Flight,’ a beautiful sculpture that was on display in their booth at the SSA convention in Reno.
We were saddened to learn of Rudy Mozer’s passing on February 25, 2014.
The first Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama (GTA) Race of 2014 is coming up! On March 29th and 30th, the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama Racing Association will host their first race of 2014 in Bainbridge, GA (KBGE).
Jim Payne and Gordon Boettger both embarked on wave flights out of Minden, NV today, March 6, 2014. Jackie Payne has been blogging updates on Jim’s flight and Walt Rogers has been reporting Gordo’s progress on his blog. Both pilots are doing zig-zag flights between Minden, Susanville, and Mojave.
These were provided to us by Jim Foreman. We certainly agree with Jim that it is very important to preserve our Soaring history. — Thank you, Editors Moving Day At Black Forest 1-26 Soaring Contest Owl Canyon Gliderport The Last Day At Black Forest Gliderport (A funeral for the place we all loved)
The FAI Environmental Commission (EnvC) has established the Angelo d’Arrigo Diploma, a new FAI environmental award which aims at recognising and promoting major contributions in the field of environmental and sustainable development, in accordance with the development of a philosophy and a vision of sport aviation that increasingly wants to be respectful of the environment…
The Aero Club of Poland is very active in promoting the idea of “olympic gliding”. The Polish foundation “Smyki na start” whose main goal is promoting engineering and technology among youngsters together with Aero Club of Poland and Warsaw University of Technology are co-operting in order to convince the organisers of the IWG in Wroclaw…
Editors’ Note: This article is based on a press release by Guy Cross, announcing publication of the book Wings Over Arabia by Roger Harrison. Mr. Cross is General Manager of Medina Publishing. Wings Over Arabia is the first-hand account of an historic and often dangerous gliding expedition over the wild and desolate deserts, massive dormant…
The Minden Soaring Club (MSC) has announced that it will again be offering youth scholarships to encourage youths between the ages of 14 and 21 to help finance flight and ground instruction in preparation for obtaining a private glider rating.
