Posted this morning by US Schempp-Hirth rep, Heinz Weissenbuhler on RAS:
http://www.schempp-hirth.com/index.php?id=25=1
Jim
Airbrake system AD
To all Duo Discus, Nimbus 4D, and Arcus operators in the US and Canada:
Please visit the Schempp-Hirth web page www.schempp-Hirth.com
Apparently it lands like a Diana 2.
Jim
On 8/26/2015 5:50 PM, Ross McLean wrote:
Beautiful!
And despite what CASA says, these guys had no problems mounting
GoPro's on the wings.
ROSS
_
Perhaps Geoff Sim or other motorcycle enthusiasts may know of brake
shops that still reline drum brakes for classic bikes.
I've had a couple of different bike shops in California turn glider drum
brakes into something capable of putting an LS4, LS6 or Libelle on the nose.
The brake shops reline
Matthew et al: InReach is a good device.
I owned the original SPOT from prior to their creation of the shared
page and then had a SPOT2.
Delorme introduced InReach a couple of years ago. A friend still uses
the original (cube-shaped) one. I switched to InReach when my SPOT
contract ended at
Bob Carlton's TST-14 Bonus Jet climbs at about 1000FPM using 100%
thrust for first 500ft, then back off to about 80% for the rest of the
launch. We burned about 10 liters of Jet A to self-launch then went
soaring. The turbine is a PBS TJ-100, same as on his Salto and latest
toy the Sub
It was at Bob's home field, Moriarty, NM. Elevation is 6200'.
2000' or so AGL. Bob ran the turbine a bit long, as he wanted to shut
down in a round thermal and there weren't any.
Jim
On 5/23/2015 4:26 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote:
Where was this, Jim?
Takeoff airport AMSL?
How high above the
According to many users, the latest update of PowerFLARM seems to
have cut the range down.
Between that, there only being a few FLARM equipped gliders where I fly,
and antenna placement problems in a carbon fuselage, I've not been
pleased with the results and will likely remove mine.
Jim
It would be worth putting a map together of wave areas at various sites.
Stitched together they may form a useful XC corridor.
Google Maps can be set up to share information like this.
Jim
On 5/9/2015 8:02 PM, John GWYTHER (BigPond) wrote:
Re: Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 140, Issue 7
Apart from
Mike was the first to include this feature, but...
Every electric vario can have a backup battery.
Pardon the Text-O-CAD.
Jim
SPDT ON/ON Switch
|
Main Supply + _
\__ Instrument +
Thanks, Simon.
Might try the process is for doing it the other way around: Getting a
CASA GPL through the FAA one. Is there a Commercial GPL?
According to the (insert explicative here) manual, a plastic card
licence is not ICAO compliant. Would imagine the FAA card especially out
of
A step up from Bunnings, but perhaps useless to you...
Just called McMaster and found out they will ship to Australia if
it's to an Australian branch of a company that already has a US account
with them. It may also be possible for an Australian company to start up
an account. For this
I've helped with this on a couple of gliders. This was back in the
days of VHS camcorders! Lots of lead ballast weights required. The
answer to the legalities question back then was essentially ignorance
is bliss.
In today's terms, you can get field approval if you want to go that
route.
No, but they have pampas grass in the front garden.
Jim
On 1/6/2015 1:30 AM, Ben Jones wrote:
Do compasses throw their keys in a bowl also ?
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Regarding the USAF TPS spin report and the dual fatality at
California City:
One of the pilots involved in the flight test (P25, Reference 4) was in
the Cal City Puchacz.
It's not as if Russ hadn't done spins before.
I didn't know the other pilot.
Any posts by Cindy Brickner about the Puchacz
Just got off the phone with a glider instructor who put an astronaut
through the paces to get his glider rating in the last 6 days.
Evidently the shuttle was quite an upgrade from Soyuz' 0.38:1 glide
ratio, but still topped out at 4:1.
The mighty Schweizer 2-33A Drag Master gets 23:1 if
But using Catherine Conway's selective deafness technique is an option
too.
Jim
On 9/16/2014 7:05 PM, Simon Hackett wrote:
Hello Jim (and anyone else with the same request) - please read the
bottom four lines of this message.
Cheers,
Simon
On 13 Sep 2014, at 9:31 am, jim crowhurst
Wrong chemistry?
You probably want LiFePO4.
2000 cycles. 12.8V 10A/H is ~1.2kg.
I've put 30AH LiFePO4 in the last 2 gliders. Running a full panel
including flight computer, full VGA display, backup vario, COM, TXP
(even the old Mode C rubbish), FLARM it'll go for about 18 hours.
Jim
On
This is fantastic news.
Not many places in the World have such representation for GA, let alone
gliding.
Jim
On 8/28/2014 11:02 PM, Future Aviation wrote:
/*Congratulations, Anita -- your hard work has paid off!*/
/**/
/*According to this news clip recreational aviation has a strong voice
The Russians mine Erudite in the Erud mountains. It's use is classified,
but believed to be part of the formula for those Gorby Dolls.
Reynolds is an American manufacturer of tin foil and plastic wrap,
useful if you're laying something up on a wing. Sometimes they're sold
at two for the price
Go, Morgan!
Serious performance at 13.5m span.
Jim
On 7/6/2014 2:48 PM, pam wrote:
GFA has received the following claim notifications for Australian
National Records:
Sub-Class DU (Ultralight Gliders)
Category: General
Location: Ely, Nevada USA
Pilot: Morgan Sandercock
Glider:
The US Standard Class Nationals was canceled due to poor
pre-registration numbers.
Juniors? They won't even try putting a comp together.
But it's not a big college town.
Jim
On 7/6/2014 5:28 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote:
I looked at the US nationals results for 2014
20 entrants in 18M
16 in 15M
Yes.
The GlidePort.aero and the derived SSA Sailplane Tracker website that
Morgan referred to presently do not link to APRS devices. That is being
worked on. Who knows if they'll ever link to the myriad of smart phone
applications?
Looking at yesterday's SPOT versus APRS tracks, the APRS
SPOT is a good service and has been around for years. I've used it
since before they introduced shared page tracking. Delorme InReach,
especially the InReach SE, is a better product but at a higher operating
cost. The Explorer version can also be used for navigation. With InReach
you can
If the Butterfly vario (but it's called something else now) detects
problems during calibration, it decreases the amount of information used
from the inertial sensors. Proximity to anything electrical can cause
errors.
The only one I have flown had passed all the calibration tests so had
Unfortunately, John Shelton is no longer flying sailplanes.
John sold the Ventus C quite a few years ago. The last owner didn't
initially know about John's alter ego Pez, couldn't understand why
people referred to his glider as The Lingus.
Most of the characters (from US Region 12, Southern
Still hoping it will be Lingus.
Pez D. Spencer Sailplane Racer cartoons at:
http://archive.soaravenal.com/Pez.htm
Jim
On 5/13/2014 7:07 AM, Redmond Quinn wrote:
et tu Brutus
Redmond
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Not according to Tilo and Biggo.
The name is retiring, like Duo Ventus and Nimbus 5.
Jim
On 5/11/2014 1:53 AM, Adam Woolley wrote:
Will it be named the V3 though? Not sure.
Cheers,
WPP
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Hello all:
You may find someone you recognise in the photos George Uvegas took
at the Worlds in Marfa, TX in 1970. Kevin Christner has permission to
upload them.
Who flew the Phoebus SX with a kangaroo on the tail?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49579078@N03/sets/72157642545270585/
The best I can come up with so far is this link.
Woodstock tab, then construction notes tab.
Jim
http://www.ihpa.ie/carbon-dragon/index.php/cd-builders/jim-maupin-s-prototype-cd#plans
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Jim Maupin used to live a few k from home.A few of us would have
Saturday breakfast with him in his later years (he'd be smoking while on
Oxygen). Several locals know a lot about his designs, so I'll ask about
deflections when I get home.
Unfortunately Lockheed Skunk Works engineer Irv Culver,
10 minutes to sunset, and 25,000' just SE of Riverton, WY.
Too bad it was a bit slow going earlier. A blue day.
Jim
On Mon, 2/17/14, Rob Wintulich r...@signwizard.com.au wrote:
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] 1500 Km wave flight in progress now..
Walt Rogers e-mailed yesterday that this was the plan.
It was nice to be able to check in on Gordo's progress using the tracking
site for his Delorme InReach. I fly with a SPOT, but the InReach is better.
The flight plan was filed with ATC, so his transponder was also trackable:
Here's a video of the two flights played in SeeYou, made by a US comp pilot.
Jim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jRbYpEk1Iclist=UU2NFMsZX3qpRuwIHczpkR7Afeature=sharenoembed
On Wed, 2/12/14, Peter (PCS3) p...@internode.on.net wrote:
Subject: Re:
Matt, just cross-posted your message to Rec.Aviation.Soaring in the thread
about the two identical flights.
May upset a few people with the remark the US team has a lot to learn about
pair (team) flying.
Jim
On Wed, 2/12/14, Matt Gage
Neville
If you have no luck in Australia, contacts are on the US based Experimental
Soaring Association's website, below.
There are still plans available for some Hall and Marske gliders, but I think
no more by Maupin.
HP and other Kits also available.
Jim
http://www.esoaring.com/
I fell in love with soaring in that glider, N131SS GV.
George flew the 1000k on the Appalachian ridges of Pennsylvania. He wrote the
introduction for Tom Knauff's 1981 book Ridge Soaring The Bald Eagle Ridge
about that flight.
The book may not be available in Australia.
Jim
From RAS, Paul Remde of Cumuluus Soaring posted 1:40 PM (2 hours ago)
*** Big News from Cambridge and ClearNav ***
ClearNav Instruments and Roy A. Ridgeway are pleased to announce that they
have reached an agreement under which RR will sell to CNi a large inventory
of CAI 300 Series parts and
Wielen danke,
Jim
On Sat, 12/28/13, Bernard via Dropbox no-re...@dropbox.com wrote:
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Bernard Eckey shared Interview with U. K..doc with you
To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net
Date: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 3:28 AM
Having used various riggers on a few Std, 15m, 18m, and with the other pilot
20m 2-seaters, they seem to be a fantastic tool.
The cheapest one I found was a used Udo for $300. Needed some paint, and dirt
removing from the worm gear. It's just a Bilstein jack as used on Mercedes.
Solo rigging
I have tried to fit a MH AL- cylinder into the standard ASG29 O2 mounting tube.
It would not fit.
The steel D cylinder is smaller in diameter and works.
Jim
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There are three different riggers on this web page. One American, one German
and one Czech.
http://wingsandwheels.com/page47.htm
And another one here.
http://wingrigger.com/index.html
I always thought the Canadian Udo rigger with lateral adjustment option to be
best. Udo Rumpf passed away a
Watched that flight unfold on the multiple Inreach / SPOT devices. According to
the first report on OLC Magazin you were both American. Now corrected to: the
Australian/American team
Had similar luck using a US Malibu Grand Prix Racing Licence, essentially a
toy, when traffic police stopped me
A while ago there was a link to a W+B program. Looked in the archives but
didn't find it. Believe there was a mobile app associated with it.
Is that app currently available?
Thanks,
Jim
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Believe the video in Cath's post was previously used by Paul MacCready in his
presentation at the 2005 SSA convention.
The RC glider speed record video appears to be from Parker Mountain, a D-S
site for a decade or more. You can imagine how many RC gliders have hit the
dirt there at a vast
The Grand Canyon is closed (does that mean you can fly through it?), and all
air shows on federal property have been cancelled even if everyone has been
paid.
So far NOAA satellite imagery, Unisys, BLIPMAPs and XC Skies still work.
The FSL Java Sounding plots do not.
Perhaps the GPS
Not exactly a sailplane either. In flight the shuttle looks more like a brick,
with a glide ratio to match.
But it was impressive to see one land about 12 hours after seeing it as a
satellite.
Jim
From: Justin Sinclair jjsincl...@optusnet.com.au
To:
VH-WPP Excellent!
Jim
From: Adam Woolley go_soar...@hotmail.com
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
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Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliders, glider manufacturers,
Nice toy...
A friend compared the IGC log from his iPad to that from his CAI model 20 and
recollections of reading the altimeter.
The fruity one had many altitude errors.
Jim
From: jo...@optusnet.com.au jo...@optusnet.com.au
To: Discussion of issues relating
Shipping USA to Aus you will likely use an American freight forwarding
company, whether it's organised through a local contact like Gary Brasher or
not.
My last experience with rates was that the price fluctuates with demand. Allow
for a large window of time and the actual cost to ship can
Adam the best deals seem to be on segelflug.de at the moment, due to new radio
regulations in Europe.
For example there was an AR4201 with new form one for 400 Euros, probably
snapped up immediately.
Jim
From: Adam Woolley go_soar...@hotmail.com
To:
One 45-minute flight last week (testing a new vario) I flew with three
eagles, no condors and dozens of hawks, etc. There are only 5 or 6 thousand
wind turbines within 50km.
Jim
From: Mike Borgelt mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com
To: Discussion of issues
Sad.
My 302 was stuck at their new address, which turned out to be a storage
unit, until it was forwarded to Cumulus Soaring for logger recalibration.
There's at least one company interested in picking up the CAI inventory and
doing repairs. No guarantees of that.
Although you'd think he's
Since all the ASW20BHs have passed their time as an H, isn't the biggest
performance difference between stock ASW20s the MGW of the 20B? Doesn't mean
much at reference weight.
Heard of people who have removed the pitots, put the turbulator tape over the
blow holes of the C.
There's a
and a tail tank!
Good comparison. Both at MGW, the LS6 will climb with an ASW20 but leave the
20 behind. Seen it me against a good 20 pilot so it had to be the glider.
Jim
From: Mike Borgelt mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com
To: Jim Staniforth staniforth
Need a pair of wing fittings for H201b, possibly the fuselage fittings too.
Jim
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Bernard, your customer is having a laugh!
Believe there is no flight computer/vario/display costing more than 3% of the
basic price of an ASH31Mi... Without considering trailer or any options,
shipping, etc.
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From: Ross McLean ross...@bigpond.net.au
To:
SeeYou may run fairly well under Parallels or Crossover. Achieved inferior
performance to a Pentium 3 laptop on what was a the time the top of the line
Macbook Pro. The only native software I ended up using on OSX was Firefox.
Twenty or so programs had to run via Parallels or Crossover, so
Closest I can come is holding a third class FAA medical certificate.
The third class medical requires no real physical exercise.
An FAA second class medical (for commercial pilot rating) is valid for 12
months, third class (for private rating) 24 months like the biennial flight
review.
A
Repeat of old info?
The batteries in the new Schempps are sold on the accu-24.de website.
Bernard, Schleicher #27053 has the Tenergy LiFePO4 batteries in the usual
place. Still has the old school batteries in the tail, which needs the weight.
The Shorai is the wrong chemistry, unless you're
It's painted in a more recent Air Canada scheme than in the photograph. Now
sitting on the ramp at Mojave, California with many other airliners that are
for sale. Mojave is the home of Scaled Composites, who produced the X-Prize
winning Space Ship One glider and are currently building the
If there is an ES59 in the USA, it isn't registered.
Unfortunately it's about three years since FAA required re-registering every
three years to purge wrecked, etc aircraft from the registry.
Each registration number has a history, so finding lost aircraft in USA is
easier using the N number.
It was done a decade or so in the USA. You could log on to DUATS - Direct User
Access Terminal Service - and choose plain language weather briefing.
Unfortunately, plenty of things were rost in transration, with multiple
choices given for their own translations.
Really shows how silly the
The xinqu link (a mirror site) works too.
Jim
http://soaring.xinqu.net/TP/
From: Mike Borgelt mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012
From today's Soaring Society of America E-news.
Download the validation tool from the ClearNav website.
Jim
Great New OLC Deal for Old
Cambridge Flight Loggers
Wonderful news for the many
pilots still using legacy Cambridge loggers - the original Model 10 and the 20
and 25 versions.
Yesterday's test of two Tenergy #31383 12V 10AH LiFePO4 batteries run in
parallel.
These batteries fit in a standard Schleicher, Schempp-Hirth, etc. battery mount.
Perhaps 15 minutes of pre-flight use.
6:30 of flight
A few minutes of post-flight use.
Equipment:
ClearNav VGA
CAI302
Becker
After flying today I had dinner with Uvalde WGC weather man, Walt Rogers.
He seemed quite impressed with the whole Australian team.
Jim
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Not solely a GFA thing... Soaring Society of America logbooks have no columns
for Motor Glider hours, Distance or Speed.
And many power logbooks don't have a column for taildragger time.
Jim
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Libelle lovers!
I know of two Libelles which had this crack.
Michael Reid has documented his discovery and repair.
Jim
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I thought anyone buying a new glider from Kirchheim could get AirBatt LiFePO4
batteries delivered in it. All complete / nearly complete gliders seen in the
workshop had these installed (except for the motor starting battery). No, they
are not STC'd.
Check to see which cylinder you can get hydro tested locally. I have thrown
away a German cylinder because nobody nearby would test it.
Jim
From: Pam Kurstjens p...@kurstjens.com
To: DDSC c...@ddsc.org.au; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in
Australia.
Hank Nixon built the ASW24/W27/W28/G29 kits now approved by Schleicher at his
shop in New Jersey. It can be found on USA Schleicher rep John Murray's website.
http://www.easternsailplane.com/eastern/eastern.php/EasternSailplane/TheVent
I had theNixon/Murray/Butler ventinstalled in the 27. The
Greg Cole at Windward has been talking about these developments for a while
now, and had the Duckhawk (at that point still bare Cabon) on display at the
SSA convention in Reno.
Perhaps one of the first pilots to fly the 200Kts+ version hard will be Jim
Payne. Jim already has seven World
Excellent point, Stuart. Same situation as a Form 2 or pilot Flight Review.
Many medically-induced aviation accidents have happened to pilots holding
current medical certificates, just as there have been failures of aircraft
systems after a major inspection.
More points of reference from
Hello from Zurich:
The proposed wind turbines near KTSP and KL94 are above the FAA
obstruction-free zone for both airports. Those on the ridge would put a line of
obstructions between the normal glider release point and the airport, above the
glide angle for any glider. There's no safe
From: Mike Borgelt mborg...@borgeltinstruments.com
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Soaring in Australia. aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Easements in the air
So what? There are plenty
Many friends and I have been involved in the arguments against this lot
putting tall wind turbines in the vicinity of airports and on the ridge where
we routinely fly. We prevented the project from just getting an OK stamp of
approval, so now they're fighting back.
We've got the support of
Whilstat Mindendelivering an experimental glider a couple of years ago to it's
new owner, I met an FAA airworthiness man.
Shoved the logbook at him and called out ramp check!. He didn't want to do
it, but I asked if he could let me know if I was prepared for one.
All was good. Everyone had a
The CN variometer now appears as a photograph no clearnav.net.
Jim
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WPP: Why not Szechuan Factors? Adds more spice.
Jim
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Seen lots of mistakes like that at work, usually ending with sent from my
i-phone...
Jim
sent from a typewriter with some sort of television set on top
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To: 'Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.'
Hello Jenny:
I'll be at Keepit Jan 10th. There's room in the suitcase for such hazardous
stuff (according to the Thousands Standing Around mob anyway).
http://www.wingsandwheels.com/glider_canopies.htm
Jim
From: Jenny Ganderton
A new Goodyear Flight Custom 3 is a large tyre. The 500x5 does not fit in an
ASW20, which has more room than the Jantar gear. The doors of the 20 won't
fully close.
Soon to find out if FC3 fits ASW27. Plenty of room in ASH26, probably the best
tyre for SLSPs.
While you're investigating tyres,
2011 14:27, Tim Shirley tshir...@internode.on.net wrote:
Sounds like someone has just invented the Assigned Area Task. Only 10 years
late :)
Cheers
Tim
tra dire e fare c'è mezzo il mare
On 29/09/2011 12:52, Jim Staniforth wrote:
I've had a few flights with beta software .525 now. No problems
I've had a few flights with beta software .525 now. No problems.
The HW/TW component is nice.
Tasks on the main ribbon is convenient, but it's a lot of clicks from there to
the IGC declaration page.
Didn't try anything else.
Still no North up while circling option. But it's coming.
Jim
A friend has a daylight-visible passive strobe on his hang glider.
To most, it would look like a small mirror ball hanging from the kingpost.
Jim
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Some foreign observations for reference or the bin:
Annual SSA dues are currently less than 25% of GFA dues, but it would have
been about 50% if the US dollar was worth the paper it's printed on.
No pile of paperwork needs to be purchased for an Annual Inspection for
Standard registration or a
Perhaps because something like 2% of the people have 90% of the money.
It's called the trickle-down theory.
Jim
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To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
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It doesn't always go sideways. One friend landed a Craponi on a ranch in
Nevada and was issued food, water, a pickup truck, a blanket and a gun by the
rancher.
I only understand the first four things.
There's someone with the contest letters 666 often flying in Utah, a Mormon
state, oh
It's a standard Schweizer release, there are thousands of them in use. Pretty
simple, and easy to inspect.
Jim
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Sent: Sunday,
While comparing speeds of late 70s comps, bear in mind that at this point in
time competition glider sealing techniques were not what they are today.
Watch an older racing film (Zulu
Romeo, Sun Ship Game) and listen to the howling noise when a glider
finished.
A friend rebuilt an ASW12,
Perhaps I don't understand. Thought the aforementioned Europeans and Pre-Worlds
were FAI 15m and 18m class comps.
P7 Gary Ittner (second in 18m at Uvalde) used to fly his 17.6m Ventus C/A
in the then-handicapped US Open Nationals and score very well on the fast days.
Gary still has a Discus
WPP et al:
A friend bought the 16m tip kit from Schempp-Hirth and added the tips to his
German Registered Cirrus. Perhaps you can do the same?
But it's not the time of year for getting anything custom made in Germany.
Jim
From: Adam Woolley
Doesn't appear much different to the old way.
At Hemet, gliders always operated on the North side. Communication is not too
strange. It's normal to give way to firefighting aircraft.
However, landing 22 used to be OK in the dirt short of 22.
The really unfortunate thing at Hemet is that
Hello from a rainy day in Munich. GAW, no flying at Unterwossen for me either!
Frank's simple system works well. Perhaps use a tarpaulin on the ground for
places where the carpet would pick up stones or burrs. Build a cuff with a pin
on it for the wall of a clam shell trailer if the spar sits
Robert:
Unterwossen?
Jim
From: Robert Hart ha...@interweft.com.au
To: DDSC Chat c...@ddsc.org.au; Soaring in Australia
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Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:56 PM
Subject: [Aus-soaring] Darling Downs weather for the weekend of
As you drive into Pennsylvania, the first sign you see reads
WELCOME. You've got a friend in Pennsylvania.
The second sign has a list of fines for traffic violations.
But the ridges are nice.
Jim
From: Peter F Bradshaw p...@exadios.com
To: Discussion of
... In his vintage Glasflugel Kestrel.
This is the latest in the season there has been big wave in memory.Gordo and
Jim Payne have both been pushing hard in the Sierra wave. Jim just took back
the #2 position on the OLC, but Gordo with the top two flights just has to fly
something like 500k
More hearsay.
The Caproni A21 has a similar outer wing panel connection.Here's the NTSB
report on one that came apart.
...on their takeoff roll, the glider's right wing deflected upwards (about 90
degrees)...
Had heard from this aircraft's previous owner that the pilot's assistant had
Still hoping that sharing local wave information in Australia can promote
long XC wave flights along the Great Dividing Range. There was concern
expressed about air traffic. The slice of Class A and Restricted airspace that
this flight was cleared into probably sees as much traffic as all
For anyone using SeeYou 4:
The link within SeeYou v4.0 that will advise you to update to 4.01 is broken,
and is actually v3.95.
Best to wait...
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