[Aus-soaring] Easter Weekend Flying at Narromine

2011-04-05 Thread Ross McLean
Easter Gliding at Narromine Hi All, Consider this, use Easter this year to go gliding with us at the Narromine Gliding Club This is an invitation to consider doing some serious and recreational gliding in this extended Easter Breaks (five day with Anzac day I do believe). Take up this chance to ha

Re: [Aus-soaring] Ornithopter

2011-04-05 Thread Don Ingram
Try this for the originating company (Festo), some of their other projects are way coool too!! http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11437.htm#id_11437 n 6/04/2011 8:17 AM, Jeff Farrow wrote: The link seems to be abbreviated http://www.bild.de/video/clip/hannover-messe/smart-bird-der-robote

Re: [Aus-soaring] Ornithopter

2011-04-05 Thread Jeff Farrow
The link seems to be abbreviated http://www.bild.de/video/clip/hannover-messe/smart-bird-der-roboter-vogel-17253208.bild.html - Original Message - From: rolf a. buelter To: aus soaring Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 7:39 AM Subject: [Aus-soaring] Ornithopter It's in germ

[Aus-soaring] Ornithopter

2011-04-05 Thread rolf a. buelter
It's in german and you have to sit through 2 minutes of deodorant commercial but it's worth it. http://www.bild.de/video/clip/hannov...3208.bild.html Rolf ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode

Re: [Aus-soaring] my accident on saturday/towline parachute

2011-04-05 Thread max.kirsch...@tiscali.co.uk
See the attached link www.glidingmagazine.com/FeatureArticle.asp?id=117 For an article on the Tost retrieve winch fitted to a Rotax Falke. Regards Max (UK) >Original Message >From: carlric...@gmail.com >Date: 05/04/2011 16:04 >To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Austra

Re: [Aus-soaring] The $65 glide computer

2011-04-05 Thread Mike Borgelt
OK it isn't the $65 LS4 but it is the $65 glide computer. While passing through the local Hardly Normal's on the weekend with a friend we saw they were having a runout on Navigon 1400 car GPS units at $65 each. He bought one and we loaded XCSoar 6, australia.dat and australia.txt for airspac

[Aus-soaring] Final Glide - Geoff Strickland

2011-04-05 Thread John Welsh
Another stalwart gone. http://www.gfa.org.au/iMIS15/GFA/News_Content/General_News_Content/Vale_Geof f_Strickland.aspx Regards, John Welsh -- John invites you to visit Beverley Soaring Society at www.beverley-soaring.org.au

Re: [Aus-soaring] AERO trade fair

2011-04-05 Thread McLean Richard
And despite all the negativity & bitching & one-upmanship that goes on, I think I speak for a lot of aus-soaring lurkers when I say that gliding would be much poorer without an easily accessible, nationwide avenue for healthy debate. Well most of the time =) So thank you for that Simon. Cheers,