Leah and I arrived at the beautiful Caesar Creek Soaring Club last night for the 1-26 Championships. For those unfamiliar, the 1-26 Champs are the only outlet in the US for one design sailplane racing, are organized by the 1-26 Association (www.126association.org), and feature competition among only Schweizer 1-26 gliders. With only 23:1 book performance…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Klaus Ohlmann and the Mountain Wave Project on French / German TV
by Bill Elliott •
ARTE presents “Riding the Winds” For those who haven’t had the chance yet to watch this, here is just a quick link to a very informative movie a friend (BTW not a pilot…) just submitted to me. You will meet Klaus Ohlmann at his home airfield and together with the Mountain Wave Project’s members exploring…
Champion à Sisteron 2014 – Didier Hauss se présente au Soaring Café
by Bill Elliott •
My first solo — I’m stoked! [HD Video]
by Bill Elliott •
Kawa-Biter or Happy Winner? Didier Hauss talks about his Success
by Bill Elliott •
The exciting Grand Prix Final of 2014 in Sisteron is not just history, it is historic: 8 days of soaring weather – maybe not all of them perfect. But still this is quite a sensation for European conditions! The excitement became bigger and bigger after every contest day, and when last morning had broken six…
Young Meets Old – Project K8
by Bill Elliott •
Finnish Nationals “… storms, storms and more storms”
by Bill Elliott •
“…forecast is either for storm, many storms or the whole country covered in storms.” It was waiting on day 3 from the Finnish Nationals in club and standard class flown from Rayskala. Good practice this competition, specially for the overseas pilots, participating in the WGC starting on June 22. A competitive way to get to…
Summer 2014 Issue of VSA’s “Bungee Cord”
by Bill Elliott •
The Summer 2014 issue of Bungee Cord is distributed to Vintage Sailplane Association (VSA) members and we thought the rest of the gliding and soaring community should know about this special 40-page issue, published in conjunction with the VSA’s 40th anniversary. Summer 2014 Bungee Cord: Table of Contents The editorial by Jim Short discusses “Fine…
‘Unofficial’ Minden 18m Nationals Waypoint Database
by Bill Elliott •
Maiden Dual Flight of the Sunseeker Duo
by Bill Elliott •
Eric and Irena Raymond report on their First Solar Powered Flight After the recent great news about Schleicher’s latest product, we now discovered another exciting maiden flight that had already happened the day before the ASG 32 Mi’s first launches. In Italy, Eric Raymond who built the first solar-powered two-seater which he had “secretly” test…