I had the entire weekend available this weekend to fly and intended to take advantage of it.  Saturday was a bit windy and we were still under the influence of a really annoying inversion. Leah came out to the gliderport and helped me rig YYY…

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Last Sunday was my chance to fly last weekend and Leah had offered to chase if I decided to fly straight out.  She was partially motivated by the strong A/C in the pickup and the 103 degree forecast high temp.  The forecast looked iffy but be…

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The weather hasn’t been particularly cooperative lately.  Unfortunately for our club, we have had a “normal” to “wet” spring as far as rainfall is concerned and our soaring season is not nearly as good as it was last year.  I flew YYY on June…

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I was able to get out to Sunflower on Saturday and get YYY back in the air.  It had spent the week assembled in the club hangar which was handy.  Leah was out of town but Matt went with me to the airport.  We hooked up the trailer, loade…

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Matt and I pulled YYY to Sunflower this morning as it was our first day of scheduled ops at the club.  The forecast wasn’t too promising but I was hoping to be able to get in the air by about 3 and had planned up a short 2 hr task that wouldn’t ge…

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Found this in the Jan/Feb 1958 Soaring. Can’t remember seeing this ad before

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