...unt of time just getting to the site - and then the wind is across the launch and you go home not having flown at all. I didn't have that kind of time.
Sailplanes are wonderful but there'...
Yes Doug, I have actually flown and tested many planes and do find the Marske Monarch one of the best suited to my needs.
And there has never been an accident on any of the Monarchs we have built ...
... happy. Glarecutters are good for anyone.
I've had mine for 3 years. Since then, I haven't flown without them. The lenses were about $80 more than conventional plain glasses....
Having never flown a contest, please allow me to educate myself on this topic with this question.
Working under the assumption that one gets the behavior that one rewards (in this case maximum gro...
...ng wrong with the Nimbus 4DM. They even analysed the plates from the shattered storage batteries! I have flown many contests with Bill over the years, and he was always a very good and careful competi...
Pilot was trying to correct glider before crash
By Patrick Lester
John Carlson also had trouble asssembling the aircraft the day it went down off Route 152 in Hilltown.
HILLTOWN —The pil...
...You can't say that the Fauvels were not very successful. More than one hundred AV-36 or AV-361 have flown all over the world, it is probably much more than all the Marske flying wings !!! The air...
...web site ( thus keeping it out of 'sight' of the 95% not involved. Having lived,(for 35 years) flown and competed in Canada, where the govt. body (=CAA) is in charge of ALL aviation, I can t...
...is matters a lot.
The Libelle is probably the easiest and lightest of all gliders to rig.
I have flown a Junior, it is ...
...we had 5000 ft runways with 1000 ft overruns on each end. Later we moved to a shorter strip. The 172 was flown to the Sensinich (probably misspelled) factory where they removed the prop and bent it to...
Last Saturday during a business trip, I took a short break and visited a Texas glider FBO. There were two people behind the counter, one talking on the phone and the other working at a computer, both ...
... the retractable gear mechanism so the Twin Trainer may have a better back seat. One club member who has flown both thinks so. The Twin II on the other hand is quite roomy front and back.
As for f...
Copied from the OZ report http://www.davisstraub.com/OZ/Ozv6n144.htm
SparrowHawk World record
Having been frustrated by the lack of even reasonable conditions in Zapata this year (except for...
Racing the Diana
I had the good fortune to pilot the first new production Diana at the Uvalde 15 Meter Nationals and would like to offer a recount of my impressions of this aircraft and how it per...
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