Re: [Aus-soaring] AUGC site, Blaniks, vintage rally and AJGC hats

2008-12-24 Thread Ben Loxton
Patch, can i bring a Blanik? On 24/12/2008, at 6:17 PM, Patching wrote: David, Yes the Rally is from Jan 3 to 10th. Hoping for the best weather, wonderful hosts as usual, and great comraderie. Lots of grog too. Merry xmas Patch PS no comment about chzec two seaters, seems people get a littl

Re: [Aus-soaring] AUGC site, Blaniks, vintage rally and AJGC hats

2008-12-24 Thread Patching
Sure. Not a problem. Normal rules apply. Patch - Original Message - From: Ben Loxton To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] AUGC site, Blaniks, vintage rally and AJGC hats Patch, can i

[Aus-soaring] Dynamic soaring.

2008-12-24 Thread ventus45
A little light reading. http://esoaring.com/albatros_presentation_esa.pdf___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Dynamic soaring, and aerotowing a jet fighter

2008-12-24 Thread Jim Staniforth
  An interesting light reading article. I also saw Paul McReady's talk on the albatross and dynamic soaring. Nicely presented but that stuff gets pretty technical.   (bad transition) The US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base were using an L23 - I won't mention it's full name -

Re: [Aus-soaring] Blanik Bashing

2008-12-24 Thread Pam Kurstjens
And the weather forecast was guess work, the navigation was a map and compass, turning point photography was a real skill, final glide happened when you were almost looking down at the airfield...wistful sigh... From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.

[Aus-soaring] dynamic soaring.

2008-12-24 Thread james dutschke
There are a couple awesome videos of some 2-3m ish wingspan gliders doing 300mph+ on the net. ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/a