I confess that I am experiencing a new feeling: I tend to be stubborn. Yes, I am willful and I want to reach my goal; especially, when it is so close! I’m also a real perfectionist, but not always in a positive way. I wanted to do my stuff again; however, I didn’t know that I shouldn’t have sat in…
Young Meets Old – Project K8 From time to time you stumble over something really special and that right in front of your door. That kind of describes how I found out about those 3 people. Now, in the gliding world “right on the front porch” is probably a far stretched term, but living at least in…
The Summer 2014 issue of Bungee Cord is distributed to Vintage Sailplane Association (VSA) members and we thought the rest of the gliding and soaring community should know about this special 40-page issue, published in conjunction with the VSA’s 40th anniversary. Summer 2014 Bungee Cord: Table of Contents The editorial by Jim Short discusses “Fine…
Eric and Irena Raymond report on their First Solar Powered Flight After the recent great news about Schleicher’s latest product, we now discovered another exciting maiden flight that had already happened the day before the ASG 32 Mi’s first launches. In Italy, Eric Raymond who built the first solar-powered two-seater which he had “secretly” test…
Last Saturday, May 31st, the weather in the heart of the German soaring country was beautiful. The Rhön mountains provided perfect conditions to launch and try out Schleicher’s newest ship, the two-seater D-KBAS, alias ASG 32 Mi, for the first time in her life. Together with CEO Peter Kremer the designer of the latest Schleicher…
It is time to start voting! The highlights of the Rules regarding voting are: Voting by registered Café members will determine the top 10 photos each month. Registered members can cast one vote per photo each day. You can vote for as many photos as you want each day. The Café editors will review the voting and…
Is it impossible to fly 3 hours? The diaries of a beginner woman pilot – mistakes and memories. I started soaring in 2013 and had my first solo in June. Looking back to this period in my life I was so happy that I reached my goal: I can fly a glider. Wow. But what…
The did it! The 701 km. task set at the Dutch National Championship was flown by 3 from the 10 participants in this class. Unfortunately “50 shades of grey” spoiled it for 7. What happened? The weather changed earlier than hoped for. After 3 in the afternoon various shades of grey covered the beautiful blue…
ready for day 8. Picture courtesy SGP organizers SISTERON in the Southern Alps 5:30 PM. What a fantastic week it was. Heroic stuff is what Brian called it. So do I. Even today you thought, “It’s in the pocket,” but then they were in “the weeds” and had to dig themselves out. Being first at…
All photos by Tilo Holighaus It’s hard to ignore what’s going on at the Grand Prix Final 2014 in Sisteron these days: reading OLC Magazine, browsing through the Grand Prix website, and following Ritz’s great Café reports I try to keep up with the latest news. Haven’t tried the live tracking yet… but with three…
