Yesterday after a dark and rainy morning, the sky became blue in Wasserkuppe at the 4th FAI World GP Gliding Championship and it was possible to have a late start with a small task. The two young German pilots Sebastian Naegel and Patrick Puskeiler bec…
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16th FAI European Gliding Championships: Revving up…
by Bill Elliott •
The towplanes are revving up and trundling across the grass towards the grids where the four glider classes are lined up and ready to go.
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4th FAI World GP Gliding Championship: Finally a great soaring day!
by Bill Elliott •
The Contest Director set a short task, but the weather was much better that expected and after an early start, the first two pilots came back archiving a speed of 109 Km/h.
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16th FAI European Gliding Championships: a contest day at last!
by Bill Elliott •
With no flying since Tuesday of last week – you cant count the 40 minutes or so that some were in the air on Sunday – there has finally been a contest day at the 16th FAI European Gliding Championships in Nitra this 26th July.
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A week in Pyrénées mountains
by Bill Elliott •
Again this year a very nice week flying from Santa Cilia de Jaca (Aragon)
Not so far away from the airfield, in France, Pic du midi d’Ossau is a nice sightseeing area.
Everyday so to speak, we were gliding along Canon de Ordessa, south of the famous brèche de Roland.
This area being a nature sanctuary, it was not to be flown directly over. Anyway prey bird such as Vultues, Percnoptère & Gypaètes were flying also outside of the parks ;-)
Sometime cloud where growing a bit too much…
… so that we went sight seing in Navarre.
Several time we flew close to each other for the sake of taking nice photo.
In the “wavelet” the view was all the most stunning.
In return I was taken some nice shots too.
Very nice week, and nice collection of images to be remember during cold winters !
Tracking from Jaca
by Bill Elliott •
During this week in Santa Cilia, I will be carrying my Spot tracker.You may follow were I am flying almost live !See the Spot tracking page.
LS6 winglet project
by Bill Elliott •
It has now been a long thought project : adding up my own winglets to LS6a “AD”.The story of the design and corresponding detailed aerodynamic analysis has been presented during XXXth OSTIV congress in Szeged (August 2010).Here is the presentation.Summ…
Soaring Cafe Wants Your Articles
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Dear soaring friends, Soaring Cafe is now four months old and continues to grow. (see stats below) Rand and I would like very much to thank you for helping to make the Soaring Cafe a big success. We receive very nice emails complimenting us on the Cafe just about every day. When we go to…
Success, again, with Facebook
by Bill Elliott •
I have spent the better part of the weekend working on the site and connections with Facebook. It would really be nice if you could login to the Cafe with your Facebook credentials and comment with them and so on. Well, I have successfully made that all work. But, I had to delete the Fan…
Soaring Cafe was down for IE users earlier today.
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Sorry for any inconveniences caused by the Cafe being down for a while for Internet Explorer users. Our Facebook plugin had some corrupt code which caused IE to simply abort the page load once the code was encountered. We will keep a close watch on this for a while. — WE
