Re: [Aus-soaring] Stonefield, SA Operation

2011-03-28 Thread Matthew Scutter
http://fly-down-under.com/ On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Adam Woolley aussiejuniort...@hotmail.comwrote: G’day all, On the way home from JG this year, I stopped into Stonefield to have a look around. I saw the beginnings of the new German operation starting up out there. Does anyone

Re: [Aus-soaring] Oshkosh electric flight awards

2011-03-28 Thread Jim Staniforth
Cool. Update: The Sun Seeker flew at the SHA Western Workshop in 2002, when the OSTIV Sailplane Development Panel convened in Tehachapi. Alan Patching came home one evening laughing, because one workshop speaker had made the claim that there was no such thing as laminar flow! With Loek

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stonefield, SA Operation

2011-03-28 Thread Ross McLean
Copy and paste the German text from this website into Google Translate http://translate.google.com/?hl=en# For an English translation. They say some nice things about us! ROSS From: aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net [mailto:aus-soaring-boun...@lists.internode.on.net] On Behalf Of

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stonefield, SA Operation

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Newton
On 28/03/2011, at 4:19 PM, Adam Woolley wrote: On the way home from JG this year, I stopped into Stonefield to have a look around. I saw the beginnings of the new German operation starting up out there. Does anyone have any more information on this? Looks like Tiger wont be opening a

Re: [Aus-soaring] Good news story from Warwick

2011-03-28 Thread tom claffey
Good stuff!! He was a fantastic Instructor and is an inspiration. Tom --- On Mon, 28/3/11, Christopher Mc Donnell wommamuku...@bigpond.com wrote: From: Christopher Mc Donnell wommamuku...@bigpond.com Subject: [Aus-soaring] Good news story from Warwick To: aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net

Re: [Aus-soaring] Oshkosh electric flight awards

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Bart
On 28 March 2011 12:26, DMcD slutsw...@gmail.com wrote: . A few people who die when falling off roofs when installing solar power or a few birds who die in wind-farms are very different to the problems caused by nuclear or coal immediately or long after the power has been generated. Well,

Re: [Aus-soaring] NSW State Comps

2011-03-28 Thread DMcD
Not old Dennis Stacey, back in the saddle! Go Dennis! D ___ 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] Stonefield, SA Operation

2011-03-28 Thread Bob Thomas
Mark I was out to dinner with Ian Rothe (BVGC) last nightand he showed me some photoson his mobile of the hangar the Germans built there. If you would like you can contact Ian on firo...@charior.net.com very impressive hangar 300ft long holds 40 gliders plus ancilliary equipment and accomm