A couple of days ago, I got the chance to sit with Rick Walters and add his local knowledge of Minden landout options into the ‘unofficial’ Minden database. Rick has been flying here forever, and knows many of the off-field landing sites by their first names (literally – I kid you not!). He has many…
Sailplane Racing News
1-26 Championships Day 1
by Bill Elliott •
1-26 Championships Practice Day
by Bill Elliott •
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…
‘Unofficial’ Minden 18m Nationals Waypoint Database
by Bill Elliott •
Montague Waypoint Database Update
by Bill Elliott •
Mifflin Day 3 Redux: Too much of a good thing?
by Bill Elliott •
Mifflin Airport Review – Take II
by Bill Elliott •
Mifflin Day 3 – Sometimes the magic doesn’t work
by Bill Elliott •
I believe it was in ‘Little Big Man’ where an indian (Native American to be politically correct) Medicine Man decides to end his own life using his special powers. When he doesn’t die, his comment to Dustin Hoffman was “Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t”. Well, that’s what happened today at Mifflin; CD Pepe…
Mifflin, Day 2 – All the food groups
by Bill Elliott •
Today was a classic Mifflin non-ridge day. A very unstable air mass with a significant cap kept us from getting T-storms, but we had just about everything else – wave, wave suppression, 8-10kt thermals, streets (some even aligned with the wind), blue holes, high overcast, spreadout, rain showers, snow showers, and just about anything else that…
Mifflin Airport Review
by Bill Elliott •
I apologize for the lateness of this post – I was tied up with repairing my wing wheel, and replacing leaky air tubing on my glider :-(. Anyway, here is my (personal, biased, and more than likely insane) take of the airports/airstrips in the Mifflin contest area. As always, if an airport/airstrip isn’t mentioned, that means…