GLIDING INTERNATIONAL ISSUE SEPTEMBER 2015
Your copy of Gliding International will be mailed this week. This is our ninth anniversary issue and our team declare it to be the best we have yet produced. It has a wide range of exceptional stories and photographs including : Are you an also ran¹ at every gliding championship you enter. Do you ask yourself Why do I never win a championship?¹ Well we provide the most comprehensive review on how to win. The review comes from the world best sailplane competition pilots and gives you a totally new appreciation what you have to do to be a winner. We regard this article as the best we have ever printed. Bill Walker¹s life is reviewed. An exceptional man who died in an accident in Namibia late last year. A personal friend of the editor who writes about the extraordinary life in gliding of this prominent New Zealander and the progress he made in creating his own unique competition sailplane. Aldo Cernezzi flies and reports on the Sunseeker Duo. This motor glider is something else¹ and a major breakthrough using the exclusive use of the sun as a means of making the craft a self-launcher. A fascinating story. The photos are spell-binding. Research by NASA has produced a totally new way of producing moulded carbon fibre structures which opens up a new concept of producing sailplanes. A big bonus for the first manufacturer to adopt the NASA process. This is a story has numerous pluses for readers. A story on a five bladed propeller for a Pawnee and other tugs. A comparison of wings. The new Ventus design versus the wings of a Condor. Remarkable similarities. A trip back to 1929 and the Black and White days of gliding. Instant launches aided by mutton fat. You have to admire our pioneers! Do you know that the world has lost 210,000 pilots since 1980. Where have they all gone in 35 years? For new soaring pilots - What¹s so great about 27 degrees (angle of bank in a thermal). Get some thoughts/help in improving your thermalling. Another new weather forecasting aid. The world viewed from one million miles away. A photo to support the concept. Live crash testing of Emergency Locator Beacons. NASA buys old aircraft to provide real-time crash evaluations. Elke Fuglsang-Petersen writes about flying the Sierra wave with Perlan¹s Chief Pilot, Jim Payne as well as a report of the Women Soaring Pilots Association annual conference in Minden, Nevada. Ritz writes about the European 2015 Championships now mid-way through the season. And we ask the question: Is the E-Genius a Winner¹. And they are developing an unmanned glider to soar on Mars. Radical design! We provide a graphic chart on glider parts in five languages. A chart worth keeping will come in handy one day. Aviation talk is all about 2.6 million drones that will be sold annually by year 2025. This is frightening as control will virtually be uncontrollable. Plus 35 other stories that will educate and inform. As we said our best issue yet! We hope you will join us. JOHN ROAKE EDITOR. NEW (or RENEWING) SUBSCRIBERS CAN EASILY EFFECT A SUBSCRIPTION BY GOING TO OUR WEB PAGE www.glidinginternational.com
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