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Video Tour of Pre-WGC Headquarters in Argentina

by Bill Elliott • January 8, 2012

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…

by Bill Elliott • December 23, 2011

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.

by Bill Elliott • December 18, 2011

Here are some clips from the Eagleville Soaring club. Added some new members this season, and were are still growing. Some members are looking for their own ships. But anyway couldn’t get it all in but here are a few. Skies over Eagleville Memories from Ron Murphy on Vimeo. Ron Murphy H301

by Bill Elliott • December 14, 2011

Here is the translation from an exclusive “retrospect” by Fabian Peitz, who flew HIS first and Australia’s first 1000 km for this season AND the first 1000 km from Stonefield as well! To remain exclusive, I publish it at the same time as my blog, this Wednesday. —-It all started on the evening of the…

by Bill Elliott • December 10, 2011

It wasn’t that bad, only 1 inch of rain during the night, then it rained again in the morning, it looked like a great Uvalde day minus the rain, only we are not in Uvalde and it rained. By noon the ground was dry and around 2 it looked soarable. One brave sole flew the…

by Bill Elliott • December 10, 2011

The smile on his face says it all. On his 14th birthday, Jesse Haggerty IV, completed his first solo flight. Jesse lives in Eufala, Al and has been flying with the Southern Eagles Soaring club located in LaGrange, GA. Jesse can’t wait until the Spring soaring season starts, so be can work on his badges…

by Bill Elliott • December 9, 2011

This video was submitted to Soaring Cafe by Martin Piskacek, here is his message to us: Hi, we have made some video of flying in wave in Czech-Poland border. We gave it on Youtube last Saturday and it seems to be popular, so if you want to give it to your website, so some pilots…

by Bill Elliott • October 20, 2011

Editors’ Note: Thanks to Guenter Pelz for sending us this report.
“In regard to more “green propulsion systems”, I would like to bring your attention to a 6:31 video report from a German television station (SWR3) that focuses on clean energy. In this report, they show the status of the Antares H2/H3 research project by using fuel cells to operate the Antares 20 meter sailplane as the testbed to gain experience in fuel cell technology.”

by Bill Elliott • October 1, 2011

This is a fun video to watch. It was provided to Soaring Cafe by Warren Cramer. He wrote to us saying, During the Region 2 North Contest this July at Wurtsboro, NY, one of our glider pilots took the following video: It was a lot of fun to shoot and watch, and I think it…