Some days ago DG sent out their latest newsletter – a great way to keep in touch and inform customers and friends. Everybody has probably heard about Jim Payne’s and Dennis Tito’s record breaking flights from Argentina and Minden, NV. The US-Air Force is flying DG 1001 as well, others prefer the single seated DG…
This picture from Sami Hamailainen in my blog last week created a lot of positive comments. Dick Butler who is on it , still remembered all names from the US team members standing around the 2 WGC Champions Ingo and George [ 1976] . So I give them to you as well and THANK YOU…
A member of my Northern German soaring club has used the dark winter evenings to work on a new device which helps us to enlighten our airfield’s traffic pattern. We can now spot our students and other gliders in the pattern and watch what is going on around our field – even those low flying…
He did it again! He only realized how long his flight was when he drove back home; 1400 miles round-trip for his club-crew-members John and Mike, chasing him and bringing him home, with ice cream in Dallas in the middle. Though his wife Leah mentioned” I think they will be getting more than just ice…
Monterrey is one of the few places in Mexico where there is regular soaring activity. Kees Bleijenberg is working with the Mexican civil aviation authorities for broader acceptance of gliding and also putting energy into promoting gliding as a sport in a country with excellent, yet mostly untapped, soaring weather. The YouTube video is by…
Have you ever wondered where the fine German gliders originate, where and how they are designed and created and who those guys are who put hundreds of hours of hard work into those pretty and shiny AS-ships? Have you ever traveled to the world’s oldest glider factory? Well, not every glider pilot on Earth gets…
The Schweizer 1-26 is the best cross-country glider ever built. Everyone has their own reason to fly the 1-26, but the underlying motivation lies in the joy that it brings.
As it looks now, 133 pilots will fly the ” flapped” 33rd WGC in Poland from 33 countries. And
26 different countries and 122 pilots, including the co-pilots in the 20 m 2-seater class, will participate in Finland.
Soaring is all about decisions. The right ones. At its finest there is only one successful combination of events, the decisions depend upon a multitude of interpretations, and they must be made quickly.
The original Post can be found here on the Gliding Caboolture Club website. We want to congratulate Lisa on her amazing flight. Well done! — the Editors On 20-Dec-13, Queensland-based glider pilot Lisa Trotter (Kingaroy Soaring Club) completed an epic record-breaking flight … a declared triangle distance of 1,026.8km. As it turns out, this one…
