In early September, I had a fantastic day of flying at Blairstown Airport, the culmination of which was having the opportunity to fly Windward Performance’s new DuckHawk. I had just flown the club Grob Twin Astir with my brother, promptly falling out and not exactly having one of my best landings in it.
A new competitor in the two-seat class has been created in the Rhoen. ASG 32 is the name of the flapped sailplane designed by Michael Greiner at the Alexander Schleicher sailplane factory for competition and cross country training.
The Women Soaring Pilots Association’s annual seminar got off to a great start Monday at the Chilhowee Gliderport in Benton, Tennessee. Twenty-eight pilots and several non-flying supporters have gathered for five days of flying and friendship. Monday dawned hot and sunny, and cu’s were popping by lunchtime. Morning flights were short, but provided good training…
The Café thanks Tilo Holighaus and Bernd Weber of Schempp-Hirth sailplanes for providing Tilo’s SSA 2012 presentation for publication in the Café.
The Café also published a short video of Tilo introducing the Arcus in the SSA 2012 exhibit hall.
Sit back and enjoy 42 uncut minutes of fast low mountain racing in Wyoming’s Salt River Range taken during the 2011 Logan 15-Meter Nationals. This is not the regular YouTube soaring video with lots of short video cuts edited to music, but shows advanced mountain racing averaging well over 120 mph continuous ground speeds. Just tell your boss that you need to take a 42 minute break today…hope you enjoy!
[Leo sent me a Merry Christmas email yesterday and I thought I would share it with our readers. — WE] Jonker Sailplanes has had a relatively good year with steady production of JS1 Revelations for customers worldwide, numerous JS1 pilots having contest success, and many fabulous OLC flights. The manufacturing year ended in mid-December with…
