Re: [Aus-soaring] EXCITING

2005-04-04 Thread Emilis Prelgauskas
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:32:48 +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > If this forum was populated by people who weren't already >in on the joke you might have a point. But I reckon the BORING >REPORTs >over many years have become a bit cultural, and an example of some >of the ironic humor that participants in

Re: [Aus-soaring] EXCITING

2005-04-04 Thread Patching
I started the Boring reports on an entirely different subject, I think it may have been something to do with the level of intellect sometimes shown within this group over a period of time. I think its great that it has continued as it now usually heralds a report that just tells everyone what a

[Aus-soaring] Junior Team Update

2005-04-04 Thread Adam Woolley
G'day All, Just returned back from the 2005 Qld Easter Gliding Championships, a record crown since the 1987 Benalla Worlds attended, 61 competing aircraft in all!! Thought I'd let you all know that I've updated the www.joeyglide.com/juniorteam/ website for all the latest on the Aussie Junior

Re: [Aus-soaring] Junior Team Update

2005-04-04 Thread Brian Wade
So there were 61 competing aircraft at the 2005 Easter Comp.  But that seems to be the only news that is available.   The Comp web site doesn't appear to have been updated since 17 March and the results table is just a bunch of "not yet" entries.   Or have I missed something? Brian    --Bria

[Aus-soaring] BORING an explanation

2005-04-04 Thread Texler, Michael
The recent thread about BORING was hilarious. I don't know if I can lay claim the title (can anyone else?), but it was in response to some particularly heated discussions on aus-soaring at the end of 2000 and early 2001. The discussions became more personal, white hot and less related to glidin

Re: [Aus-soaring] Junior Team Update

2005-04-04 Thread woolley
G'day All, Hopefully in time we'll be able to post the scores for the Easter comps. We were absolutely flat out behind the scenes the entire comp, although on the last day it all seemed to fall into place. Most nights, Hugh and Tony Cavanara were up to all hours doing the scores. There doub

Re: [Aus-soaring] mining past glider pilots

2005-04-04 Thread rolf a. buelter
Mark, as you're aware, I'm one of the old fuddy duddies. Whilst I agree with your main arguments I'm getting a little dis-enchanted with your descriptions of the likes of myself. If any of us OFITTH's would dare to write likewise about anybody younger than 30, we'd get our heads (or worse) chop

RE: [Aus-soaring] World Class Glider

2005-04-04 Thread rolf a. buelter
Just wondering why Greg co-owns an LS 3 an not a Peewee? Rgds - Rolf From: " Christopher Mc Donnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." To: Subject: [Aus-soaring] World Class Glider Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:23:47 +1030 Greg O'Sullivan said: S