AIR Avionics introduces AIR Glide – the new avionics suite for soaring at the SSA Convention in Reno, USA. AIR Glide is a flexible product line of soaring instruments that combines variometer, navigation, traffic avoidance and flight logging into one system.
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)
This is a 16mm movie made at Black Forest Gliderport in 1972 and has been lost until I was sent a VHS copy. I digitalized and posted it on YouTube for historical purposes. Black Forest closed in 1985 and the original films disappeared along with the buildings. Little signs remain and the land is now…
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 OLC has established itself worldwide as a useful portal for displaying and analyzing cross-country flights. However, there is also criticism against the platform, especially in Germany. A group of ambitious developers has, therefore, started “Skylines”, a portal that comes pretty close to the OLC functionality and offers even more features.
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…
In this video, Naviter co-founder Andrej Kolar and Roy McMaster, U.S. representative for Naviter, tell us about some new products and services.
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…
