On May 2nd at 1:30 in the afternoon I sat in my sailplane on the runway at Sunflower Gliderport in Yoder, KS. I wasn’t sure exactly where I was headed, but I knew I was going to hook up to the tow plane, climb above the airport, release, and then soar as far as I…
Flight Logs
Santa Ynez Wave in Winter
by SC Admin •
[Editor’s Note: We ran across this interesting blog post by Morgan Hall] Sunday [Jan 16th, 2011] I had the opportunity to taste a new variation of that day. The RASPs were forecasting strong N winds up high and predicting wave in the Santa Ynez area with wave bars off the Sierra Madre as well as down near Pine…
Florida 500km Goal Flight in a Light Sailplane
by Bill Elliott •
For several years I’ve had the opportunity of visiting Wallaby Ranch in Florida during the week of the EAA’s annual Sun ‘n Fun fly-in. The Spring-time weather has typically been excellent and I have enjoyed sharing the sky with Steve Arndt in his Magic Dragon and other ranch pilots flying various light gliders and hang…