Today we incorporated a new feature at the Cafe–posts from external sources. From the beginning, we have looked for interesting news on the web and posted excerpts for you to “get a sip” and then provided a link to the full post. We have discovered that we can automate that process! The Soaring Cafe home…
Tag Archive for Glider
Soaring-salut from Terlet!
by Bill Elliott •
The Dutch National gliding championships are at this stage in Arhem on the National Gliding Center Terlet. Interesting to see is how many of the WGC pilots now prepare for the comps . Mac Ichikawa from Japan flew Fatraglide and rushed to Hahnweide to fly there as well and with succes as he won 3 of the 4…
Flying Day 1, Tuesday 11/22
by Bill Elliott •
OK – so much for “I won’t fly until Wednesday”. Today turned out to be a really pretty good day. A new young German pilot did his first 300km (so he bought all the beer tonight) and one of the more experienced fellows did a bit over 400km. My Nimbus got done with the tail…
Introduction
by Bill Elliott •
First Photos from Mifflin, US 15m Nationals
by Bill Elliott •
Hammerwetter ! Money!
by Bill Elliott •
[HD Video] Terry Delore Captures Interesting Funnel Cloud While Flying in the Wave in New Zealand
by Bill Elliott •
Terry Delore flying his ASH 25 Zulu Foxtrot with Yvonne Loader 29/4/12 in Haka valley over Ritchie McCaw country. Video taken at 12,000 feet, hook cloud develops quickly into a funnel cloud at cloud base, the cloud was spinning fast although the video quality does not show it. The funnel cloud was about 1000 ft…
Let’s Go Gliding!
by Bill Elliott •
In February I attended the SSA Convention in Reno and I learned about the Let’s Go Gliding! campaign. This is an extraordinary initiative that can benefit the sport of soaring, especially if all it’s members (or at least the active ones) would get involved and really promote soaring and the campaign. During the convention everybody…
Concordia: An Interview with Chris Woodward
by Bill Elliott •
[HD Video] First Flight of the Quintus M
by Bill Elliott •
Schempp-Hirth recently finished the brand new high performance, self launching, 23 meter wingspan glider, the QUINTUS M. The test flight was done by the president of the company,Tilo Holighaus on December 23, 2011. On this 6-1/2 minute video you can see it fly, including an interview with Tilo. The interview is in German with English subtitles.