Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring Report

2004-07-19 Thread Leigh Bunting
skf1 wrote: Hey if you think 10c was cold - check out this Temp trace from Cooma, approx 20km from Bunyan - home of the Canberra Gliding Club. Standby for the Bunyan Snow Report. Hey Stuart, That's Canberra for you. And exactly why my daughter can hardly wait to finish her PhD and get outa

Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring Report

2004-07-19 Thread Leigh Bunting
Christopher Mc Donnell wrote: Would you please advise whether you replaced with a carbon fibre tailskid on the Grunau as you did before? Yep. Another carbon-fibre model. This time lighter again with a TIVAR rubbing plate, courtesy of the AUGC. The carbon-fibre tape came from that ultra-freezer -

Re: [Aus-soaring] Boring Report

2004-07-19 Thread Leigh Bunting
Patching wrote: Cold isn't a word we use sparingly at BCS over the winter. Tell me about it. I froze my butt off on Jan 2nd, 1997(?) and 3rd and 4th at the Ararat regatta. That's 'normal' for Victoria, isn't it? Great day, good fun, good comraderie and free. Excellent. Hope some of it

Re: [Aus-soaring] Rejoining this list

2004-07-19 Thread Leigh Bunting
Simon Hackett wrote: Can you do us both a favour and ask your friend to drop a line directly to me explaining what they did, and what did, or didn't, happen - and I can pass that on to the team who manage the mail server environment to look into. Thanks Simon, I have passed your message on. Leigh

[Aus-soaring] Promoting Gliding

2004-07-19 Thread Kevin McGowan
As many will know gliding in Australia is celebrating 75 years this year as is the Geelong Gliding Club. As part of these celebrations the Geelong club had a static display on the Belmont Common last Sunday with the Museum primary and the club DG300. We also had a fly over of an Auster towing