It is time to start voting! The highlights of the Rules regarding voting are: Voting by registered Café members will determine the top 10 photos each month. Registered members can cast one vote per photo each day. You can vote for as many photos as you want each day. The Café editors will review the voting and…
Looking back onto 40 years of gliding, my first flight in the swiss-made Archaeopteryx was not only very exciting, but an entrance into a new world of soaring.
The high-end hang glider which you probably all know from different publications in Soaring Café now has a younger sister: Dean-Siegler recently introduced Elec’teryx as a low-end electric motor glider.
GeoRacing is providing the race graphics for the 2014 Grand Prix in Sisteron. If you have an iPhone, iPad, or Android device, you can download a free GeoRacing app to watch the races live.
Frauke Elber, of the Women Soaring Pilots Association (WSPA) informs us that the May issue of Hangar Soaring has been published.
The FAI World Sailplane Grand Prix 2014 is underway at Aéroclub International de Sisteron in France.
The XXXII Congress of the “International Scientific and Technical Organisation for Soaring Flight” — Organisation Scientific et Technique Internationale du Vol a` Voile (OSTIV) — will be held at the site of the 33rd FAI World Gliding Championships in the Open, 18m and 15m Class, at Leszno, Poland from 30 July to 6 August, 2014.
The Minden Soaring Club (MSC) has announced the award of eight scholarships to local youth to help finance flight and ground instruction in preparation for obtaining a private glider rating.
For more than a decade the French glider pilot Jean-Marie Clément has regularly taken advantage of the Southern summer and traveled to the Andes to explore the world famous wave systems and to take advantage of great soaring. Meanwhile he has launched several TopFly expeditions and on his website he has published several reports as…
