Eagleville soaring club was present again at the Smyrna Tenn air show May 12,13 2012. This year the Navy Blue Angels performed their flight routine, that amazed the whole crowd. Out tents were set up with 2 sailplanes on hand for the crowd to touch, and even sit inside to see how this thing flies…
Every year I try to take a gliding vacation and in 2005 I visited South Africa for the first time and just fell in love with flying here. This is my 7th trip and, like earlier years, I will try to send on daily “reports” to friends back home. These daily reports really began as…
The Yorkshire Gliding Club operates seven days a week and was founded in 1934 on a site which is situated on top of a high escarpment just five miles east of Thirsk in North Yorkshire. The long side of the escarpment faces West and therefore, provides good ridge soaring for several miles when the prevailing west wind is blowing.
Here are some clips from the Eagleville Soaring club. Added some new members this season, and were are still growing. Some members are looking for their own ships. But anyway couldn’t get it all in but here are a few. Skies over Eagleville Memories from Ron Murphy on Vimeo. Ron Murphy H301
The smile on his face says it all. On his 14th birthday, Jesse Haggerty IV, completed his first solo flight. Jesse lives in Eufala, Al and has been flying with the Southern Eagles Soaring club located in LaGrange, GA. Jesse can’t wait until the Spring soaring season starts, so be can work on his badges…
On December 2, 2011, members of the Huntsville Soaring Club gathered with their spouses at The Eaves Restaurant in Huntsville, Alabama to celebrate the 2011 Christmas season and the soaring year just past. The Huntsville club is based at Moontown Airport, a beautiful and very active grass airfield a few miles east of Huntsville.
[imagebrowser id=39] I had the good fortune to participate in the second annual ‘Gelcoat Jamboree’ held 22-24 October at the Central Indiana Soaring Society near Alexandria, Indiana this past few days. For the second year in a row, CISS convinced Dave Nelson, master sailplane repair artist and all-around good guy to come down to…
Welcome to Västerdalarnas Flygklubb, and one of the best gliding areas in Sweden. VFK is situated in Dala-Järna, about 60 km W of Borlänge ESSD, the place where the World Gliding Championships were held in 1993. Here you can make serious attempts to break a record at 100-1000 km. This is the place where the…
The fourth annual Mifflin County Ridge/ Wave Encampment was a huge success with lots of flying and plenty of social events. Adirondack Soaring Club had organized this yearly event for September 29th through October 4th, 2010. Over 30 sailplanes from the following clubs attended: Adirondack Soaring in Saratoga Springs, NY, Nutmeg Soaring in Freehold, NY,…
The Moriarty Club Class/Modern Super Regional is going on right now at the Moriarty club near Alburquerque, NM. The ‘Club Class’ is for planes with handicaps from 0.935-1.05 plus Ventus (15m), ASW-20 (15m), and LS-6 (15m). The ‘Modern Class’ is for planes with handicaps 0.9349 and lower. Water ballast will not be allowed in either…
