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2014 Photo Contest is Here!

The Soaring Cafe 2014 Photo Contest is here. There will be a prize each month for the best photo as determined by vote of Café members. Cash prizes will be offered each  month. Start looking through your photos for submission. Rules and entry forms can be found here.

Mr. Schempp Hirth on the Podium

Today’s last race of the Grand Prix Final in Sisteron will be an exciting one, as 7 pilots still have a chance for a place on the podium… Yesterday Tilo Holighaus was happy to find himself on second place after another fun race around some 300 kilometers and four turn points. Tilo posted a long…

My Most Memorable Flight

Memorable flights come in many packages. Some are memorable because they broke a record, others for beautiful scenery, still others were challenging due to the weather or interesting circumstances. By comparison, mine is memorable in spite of the usual criteria. It was not particularly fast, nor high, nor even unusually long. I can’t claim the typical…

Repairing TA’s Wing Wheel

At the recently concluded Bermuda High regional contest, TA’s wing wheel suffered an unfortunate encounter with a crew vehicle, and came off a bit worse for the wear. In the immortal words of scorer Rick Sheppe “every wing wheel ends its life by being run over”, and so it was with mine. The good news…