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I am looking for a contact person who could answer some questions regarding the World class soaring contest to be held in February in Matamata New Zealand.
Bill Snead Georgetown Texas USA
DG101 - World Club Class Champion -2001 ASW-19B - World Standard Class Champion -1978
Fly both, see which you like, best package for money.Forget DG300! Too much money for too little improvement i...
'Real World' Performance differences between the Libelle 201 and the Cirrus? Can't be more than 2 points?
Tnx
Pieter
And that all in that island which is famous for it's world's worst weather Really impressive considering that...
My recent World Record in the prototype Sparrowhawk originated in Kansas , but not Yoder. I was west of there.
...angarage ranges from 100 to 200 pounds per year (no big saving there) FAI fees are the same all over the world, national fees just double the cost here...
A 100 foot wire launch will cost you arou...
Another ultralight glider, with World record claims pending, is the SparrowHawk, built in Bend, OR, USA. See www.windward-performance.com
The 'airport' in Escape from NY was the top of the World Trade Center (Hollywood created north of Los Angeles).
It's just unbelievable, and up here in Norway, the quiet corner of the world, I slept terrible last night after watching the news. Rest assured, we all pray for you.
Birger
...mation was used in the Video 'Champion Of The Wave' which is all about Ray Lynskey winning his World Champion title in 1995. Two pictures out of it:...
Having competed against him in World Championships between 1968 and 1997 (without his success), I always remember him as a gentle, smiling person. God bless him.
Birger
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 07:...
...ountains.
Site of several legendary US National Contests in the 1960's - 70's and the 1970 World Soaring Competition.
Now Marfa has a summer - fall glider FBO. See www.FLYGLIDERS.co...
I was in Germany last week and saw the Eta in the DLR hangar at Braunschweig. It is indeed being regularly flown, by Hans-Werner Große. It is an amazing looking sailplane, beautifully designed, detai...
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From the OZ report http://www.davisstraub.com/OZ/Ozv6n150.htm
' Gary Osoba set two new world records today in Big Spring , Texas , flying the SparrowHawk over a 500 kilometer (300 mi...
...ow you quote 2 friends of mine death.
Slingsby you are a F*^king Ahole.
Al
snip to spare the world more crazed delusions....
...esentative to the IGC, volunteers his time generously, and travels at his own expense. Having a seasoned World Class contest pilot in this job is a huge plus for the SSA on the world stage. In the Fal...
...ght on Dec. 17, 1903 may only have been 120ft (about 37m) in 12 seconds, but Wilbur upped the unofficial world distance and endurance records to 852ft (173m) in 59 seconds with the fourth flight on th...
..., who place insurance with Lloyds) and was told the letter was a universal reaction, until the insurance world sorted itself out, but another letter is now on its way restoring most of what was taken ...
... should be cheaper.
The ASW-19 was the machine of choice for the U.K. team in the Junior Sport Class World Gliding Championships this year, it has also been bought by the Surrey & Hants. glidi...
Carl,
Welcome to the world of soaring.
WARNING: Prepare for one heck of an addiction!
Some URL's for soaring stuff:
www.wingsandwheels.com (One heck of a toy store) www.bobwande...
...from Eastern European tin. OK, aluminum, but having had to deal with sheet steel and aluminum from third world countries for many years, I can say that the materials from those countries is highly var...
...the U.S. Team in South Africa on the SSA U.S. Team Web Site.
http://www.ssa.org/usteam
The 27th World Gliding Championships take place in Mafikeng, South Africa,from December 18-31....
...le; coincidence?
The point is that motor gliders can be delicate and the parts support can be half a world away if it exists at all. If you base a commercial operation on motor gliders, design you...
...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 airfoil they used was ...
..., a forerunner of today's S&G, was published from 1930 until 1955, with a three-year gap during World War Two.
Thanks to a great deal of help from several kind glider pilots, I have almos...
JJ, remember, not everything your mom told you is true. It might keep us from knowing what we need to know...
Mom meant to say ' the moisture from the warm air condenses on the cold glass...
...e of interest. One is the online sailplane directory. The other is a listing of soaring sites around the world. They are not 'active' databases. They are just text and image files. Nothing b...
...k, to stop some crazy idiot named abu ben something or other, from learning how to fly big jets into the world trade center. Oops to late, they did that already. And besides this law will do nothing t...
There I was, driving to the gliderport this past weekend when I had a mild epiphany involving 'the venerable 2-33.' (For Brits, an equivalent expression might be 'the immortal Spitfire....
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