38 58 10.92 N,75 52 0.00 W,Highland Aerosports, Ridgely,
Maryland, USA
http://soaringspot.com/ecc2012/
The day is canceled.
The winds were 14 mph gusting to 18 mph The forecast was for 23 knots at 4000'.
The wind was almost right down the runway a little to the north, right. mehr

38 58 10.92 N,75 52 0.00 W,Highland Aerosports, Ridgely,
Maryland, USA
http://soaringspot.com/ecc2012/We started the competition with a brisk wind (15 to 20 mph) out of the west,
with a dogleg 61 km task to the east southeast toward the coast. The Sport class
had a similar task, just a little shorter, 44 km. (See the tasks at the URL... mehr

Dr. Tracy Tillman sends the news that the FAA has just approved
our exemption for lightweight tugs. mehr

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http://flyhigh.com/Michael Robertson <info> writes:
These days, things are mellow as we at High Perspective Inc. head
into our 42nd year; the last 15 at our 60 acre groomed grass flight park in
North Pickering, ON. I’m reflecting and looking ahead. Having lost our two
awesome, regularly returning mainstay instructors / tandem... mehr

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Piotr Cywinski <<p.b.cywinski>>
writes:
"Les Canards Sauvages" (the wild ducks). Flying site Passy, not
far from Chamonix, France. The huge mountain in the back ground is Mt Blanc,
something like 4,800meters.
http://youtu.be/Yo09xgqjwLk
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Jacques Bott <<jacques.bott>>
sends:
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Jörg Bajewski <<german-ratte>>
sends:
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http://www.avda.nl/Aflenz2012/http://schiessling.blogspot.com/,
http://www.zeilvliegen.nl, http://www.sanderdelta.nl mehr

Yves Jonczyk <<yves>>
writes:
I just tested a new device for paragliders yesterday. The device
is a flying follow-device. Together with a GoPro, you can achieve quite nice and
smooth recordings.
The youtube-video of the flight is here:
http://youtu.be/q0Xf8UcXjKg

And this is the manufacturer's website:... mehr

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1156290643/atlas-a-human-powered-helicopter-for-a-historical
We’re building a human-powered helicopter (HPH) to capture the
Sikorsky Prize: a monumental challenge that represents a historical aviation
first.In order to achieve these goals, we created AeroVelo, a team of engineering
professionals and... mehr

Bob Grant <<caskydog>>
writes:
I did a two hour flight with Dean and friends at Quest in April
and here is the video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YARYvtu_7UY.
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Eduardo Jacintho W Oliveira <<eduardo>>
writes:
As we talked last year, we will Brazilians will be coming to the
Big Spring competition. I have registered as have Glauco and Mario André.
Cabeleira is going for sure, and some more will no doubt decide to comet o Big
Spring.We will also be going to Brasilia 2012 and people... mehr

Steve Kroop at Flytec <<info>>
writes:
When flying an optimized competition route, the direction arrow to
the turnpoint will point to the optimized cylinder intercept as opposed to the
WP center (like it does when when flying a standard competition route). This can
present a problem when approaching the cylinder at near tangent... mehr

http://www.willswing.com/blogs/PilotBlogs/tabid/38/BlogID/7/Default.aspxA number of top pilots are looking to return this year.If you want to come to Zapata this June contact Gary Osoba <<wosoba>>. mehr

Erick Angles<<atout.vents>> 
writes:
Results: http://www.shv-fsvl.ch/What an event! We were able to race three tasks out of five days. Tonio (Antoine
Boisellier) won the Championship by being very consistent and flying a very nice
third task which was won by Alessandro Ploner while Christian Chiech landed not
far from B1!The... mehr

Jen Richards <<airbuffy2004>>
writes:
We are very saddened to report that on Saturday, May 26 we lost a
wonderful member of our community in a Dragonfly accident.
This is what we know at this point, or at least the best that we can put
together currently. Charles Matthews was flying the Dragonfly solo, checking the
air in... mehr

Watch this in high definition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMGAis8AeM

Over half an hour late on last Friday evening I got in seven tows (six filmed)
as I worked on my landings. In the first three filmed tows I didn't release from
the tow rope. I also pulled in way too much during the tow (like I was
aerotowing, which I'm used to). Later... mehr