Ray Galloway has been a fixture in Southern soaring for many decades. He flew until he was 84 and then continued to work at competitions as CD and weather man. Ray announced that this year’s Perry contest, Region 5 North, would be his last as competition director and his friends quickly seized the moment to…
I was not able to attend Perry this year due to work conflicts and needing to save my vacation time for the upcoming WGC. Perry is a wonderful place to fly, always has very competitive field of pilots, and there very best in evening activities on the field. Maria Szemplinska was there with Jerzy and…
On the way home last Saturday from the U.S. Team Training Camp at Chilhowee, Tennessee, your editors made a detour to Dick Butler’s workshop. We found Dick and Christian Streifeneder hard at work on the Concordia. Dick and his collaborators have been putting in very long days to get Concordia ready for flight testing this spring. With the World Championships in Uvalde, Texas only three months away, they have no time to waste.
Frauke Elber has created a very nice photo slideshow of the US Seniors Nationals. Click here to view the slideshow. showtitles=true
Robin Clark (RF) took this panorama at the Senior Nationals last week.
Chris Ruf noticed this article on the Web and forwarded it to the Café to share. For a morning, the sky looked like a surfer’s dream: A series of huge breaking waves lined the horizon in Birmingham, Ala., on Friday (Dec. 16), their crests surging forward in slow motion. Amazed Alabamans took photos of the…
We want to thank Gary Childers for the post. Quite interesting photo and even more interesting since Dan Satterfield is the meteorologist here in Huntsville where the Soaring Cafe editors live! — the Editors Panhandle Helicopter tours posted this pic on their Facebook page Sunday, and I sure wish I’d been on the ride! What…
An interesting photo from Strechenflug.at: the comment read: In a photograph by Volker Füssmann you can see the beautiful wake turbulence from the propeller of a Samburo – Aerodynamics made visible. [translated by Google] Link to original photo here.
The International Vintage Sailplane Meet (IVSM) will take place on historic Harris Hill near Elmira, NY, June 30 – July 7, 2012. Now is the time to start planning your trip details to attend the IVSM.
Photos from the various gatherings to include speaker sessions, breakfast and lunch meetings, and the dinners and banquet. Click on one of the thumbnails to begin a slide viewer that you can click forward and back to view all of the images.
