Articles

We want to provide a space for anyone to add interesting Soaring related articles for the soaring community to enjoy.   People write articles for clubs and for magazines that often get trimmed down for cost reasons.  On this site, you can put as much as you want with as many pictures as you like.  Articles can range from fun flights to fix-it projects that you want to share.

Adding an article is easy.  First, register with the site my clicking the Register link on the menu to the right.  Then, familiarize yourself with Creating and Editing pages on the site by visiting Help.  When you are ready to start, click on the create a new page link on the right menu and start editing.  Finally, add your page to the menu by clicking Edit Menu here.  

Latest Articles

2007-11-26 

An Afternoon At The Lake With HK

By Gary Carter

There have been a lot of requests for me to write this story because it's a bit different from most land out stories. I though at first it would be a good flying story, but as I wrote it, I realized that the real story is about unselfish acts by good people who are the heart and sole of soaring and who for a few hours contributed to one of the best days and stories of my life.

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 2007-11-25 

How to set a US National Open Class Multiplace Distance Record in a Club Trainer! 

by Bill Elliott and Rand Baldwin

An article about a flight November 15th, 2007 in which two friends take the club trainer, an Let L-23 Super Blanik and fly 326 miles to establish a US record. 

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