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July Photo Contest Winner

by Bill Elliott • July 21, 2014

Congratulations to Stephen Marshall for winning the July Photo Contest. Click here to see the entry information.

by Bill Elliott • July 9, 2014

Photo by Guido Müller There was a low cloud base in the Swiss Alps near Lucerne, but good weather to take some pictures.

by Bill Elliott • July 9, 2014

by SC Admin • June 17, 2014

This glider flow over more then 700KM during the Dutch National Competition. Photo taken May 25th. View all of the June Photos here. Check out the July Photo Contest here.

by Bill Elliott • May 29, 2014

As part of my 12-step crash recovery program, I have taken a solemn vow to never again go to a new soaring site without a thorough review of that site’s contest waypoint database.

by Bill Elliott • May 9, 2014

For the last few decades the soaring team of Klix has been organizing this competition for all gliding classes. As the WGC takes place this summer at Leszno in Poland, which is near by, a lot of pilots participated in the competition also for training reasons.

by Bill Elliott • April 28, 2014

The 2014 Italian 13.5m Class Championship, also known as the Leonardo Brigliadori International Cup, is currently in progress along with the Italian Club Class contest at the Alzate airfield in northern Italy. The event is aptly named after “Leo” Brigliadori, the much liked and respected competition pilot (16-time Italian National Champion, 1982 EGC Champion, 1985…

by Bill Elliott • March 24, 2014

Authors Preface: As many of you have already discovered, I password-protected this post so I could show it to Al Tyler and get his input before making the review public. This turned out to be an epic mistake, as Bill Elliott was apparently deluged with complaints and/or requests for access (sorry Bill!). So … I’m…

by Bill Elliott • March 2, 2014

Thank you to Francisco L. Galvão for sending us these beautiful photos. — Editors To those who like vintage gliders attached are the photos of two well preserved and flying ones: an Spalinger and a Laister Kauffman from the brasilian glider club “Aeroclube de Baurú“

by Bill Elliott • December 20, 2013

As just about everyone on the soaring planet knows by now, I managed to crash my beloved Ventus 2bx glider on a mountain in Moriarty last June, miraculously walking away with just a scratch (literally!). Almost exactly one month later (on July 6th) I took possession of Sam Zimmerman’s ‘old’ (2004 model) 15/18m Ventus 2cx…