Thanks to Frauke Elber for sending the Café a link to a slideshow of photos taken last October at the SOARING100 celebration at Jockey’s Ridge State Park, North Carolina.
SOARING100 Slideshow
by Bill Elliott •
Other News
[HD Video] First Flight of the Quintus M
by Bill Elliott •
Schempp-Hirth recently finished the brand new high performance, self launching, 23 meter wingspan glider, the QUINTUS M. The test flight was done by the president of the company,Tilo Holighaus on December 23, 2011. On this 6-1/2 minute video you can see it fly, including an interview with Tilo. The interview is in German with English subtitles.
[HD Video] Best of Season 2011
by Bill Elliott •
“Best Of Season 2011” shows the best shots of the gliding season 2011 filmed by members of the LSC Friedrichshafen.
Video Tour of Pre-WGC Headquarters in Argentina
by Bill Elliott •
Here’s a quick (and rather dizzying) tour of the 2012 Pre-World Gliding Championship headquarters in Adolfo Gonzales Chaves, Argentina. The video was taken on January 7th with an Android phone camera. For more information about the site and regular updates throughout the competition (January 8-20), check out Sailplane Racing News near the bottom of the Soaring Café…
JoeyGlide Wrap-up
by Bill Elliott •
Back to that write up from JoeyGlide 2011. The first few days seemed to leave some time to write and attempt to proofread. However as the contest got underway time seemed to go by faster. This was my first contest with all of the girls and after landing we would spend the rest of the…
Video-How Gliders are Made
by Bill Elliott •
Here’s a five-minute video from the Discovery/Science channel that shows how a modern factory-built composite glider is made. The original was broadcast in April, 2010.
Concordia Update: Painting the Fuselage
by Bill Elliott •
In November, Heinz Weissenbuehler of M&H Soaring drove from New York to Tennessee to pick up the Concordia fuselage and transport it back to his workshop near Elmira for filling, contouring, painting, and polishing. Click here to read the Soaring Café report. Since then, Heinz and his crew completed the filling and contouring work and…
German Sport Soldiers…First Aussie 1000 km for the Season!
by Bill Elliott •
“It sure was a great achievement to get Australia’s first 1000 k flight this season to Stonefield Base.” — Sportsoldier Benjamin Bachmeier. And… “it was the prefield of an outstanding trough line wich brought the first 1000k day.” As well as “The flying in Australia, the exploring of almost unknown soaring terrain and the preparation of the long-distance…
Huntsville Soaring Club Christmas Party
by Rand Baldwin •
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.
Memories of Sportavia Soaring Center (SSC)…Part 1
by Bill Elliott •
The cooperation with Soaring Café, has given more readers from the USA the possibility to read www.soaring.eu . In my blog I do look back regularly on the quality time we had at the SSC [ Sportavia Soaring Center ] in Tocumwal Australia. I refer on a lot of names from pilots/guests/friends from this period. For those who wonder….here is…
