Cumulus Soaring always has an impressive number and variety of products on display at every SSA convention, and this year was no exception. Their booth is a veritable smorgasbord of soaring goodies—and this makes is hard to focus on just a few, which is all we have time for in a typical interview.
Photos, Galleries, and Videos
SSA2014 – A WWII Glider — in the Buff!
by Rand Baldwin •
SSA2014 – A Video Tour of the Exhibit Hall
by Rand Baldwin •
CloudStreet’s on Your TV Screen
by Bill Elliott •
Mark Mocho who flies with the Albuquerque Soaring Club recently sent out a link to the introductory trailer for “CloudStreet: Soaring the American West”. About half a year ago Soaring Café had first introduced the ambitious project – a video documentary slated for release later this year on the American Public Broadcasting System (PBS). Mark…
SSA2014 – Video Interview with Tilo Holighaus of Schempp-Hirth
by Rand Baldwin •
As part of our post-convention coverage of SSA2014, the Café is pleased to present a short video interview with Tilo Holighaus. Tilo is co-owner and manager of Schempp-Hirth Flugzeugbau, one of the most successful glider manufacturers of all time. World class sailplanes with names like Cirrus, Ventus, Discus, Nimbus, Quintus, and most recently, Arcus, come…
Hans-Werner Grosse documents an Australian Adventure
by Bill Elliott •
During the Southern soaring season in 1988/89 Hans-Werner Grosse and his wife Karin shipped their ASH 25 to Australia to explore the fifth continent by glider. Remember, this was well before the private use of GPS, well before flying with sustainers and well before OLC documentation! However the Grosse’s had a camera and so were…
Antique Gliders flying in Brazil
by Bill Elliott •
SOARING COUNTRY Black Forest Gliderport (1972) [Video]
by Bill Elliott •
This is a 16mm movie made at Black Forest Gliderport in 1972 and has been lost until I was sent a VHS copy. I digitalized and posted it on YouTube for historical purposes. Black Forest closed in 1985 and the original films disappeared along with the buildings. Little signs remain and the land is now…
Force of Nature – Gliding Over Primorska Region Summits [Video]
by Bill Elliott •
Season 2013 was special for Aeroklub Postojna, Slovenija because we managed to take a few video clips of our small but beautiful country. Our airfield is situated about 70 kilometers from Julian Alps and 10 kilometers from hill Nanos. That means that there are some interesting views and quite a lot of ridge flying. We…