Ten pilots will de disappointed because they haven't paid for their slot. mehr

The Bogong Cup - day 6 (in Stanwell)http://naughtylawyertravels.blogspot.com/2010/01/bogong-cup-day-6.html mehr

Jonny Durand <jonnyjnr80> writes:
In Australia
Sunday, 24th January, 2010
Channel 9, Red Bull Glorious Days
NSW and VIC - 1.30pm (leading into the cricket)
QLD - 12.30pm
SA - 1.00pm mehr

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I called the day early again with strong winds on Mt. Hotham
doubling between 5 AM and 8 AM. The models were contradicting each other (even
those they supposedly use the same GFS modeled "data"). The satellite picture
shows us on the northern edge of a cloud band stretching across Australia. The... mehr

http://www.thermahelm.com/cooling-helmet-technology
ThermaHelm™ is a revolutionary brain cooling helmet technology
that could save your life. Riding without ThermaHelm™ technology is like driving
without an airbag.Head injuries occur in 80% of all motorcyclist fatalities. A key factor in these
injuries is brain swelling inside the... mehr

Randy Ruack <randy>
writes:
The 2010 Canadian National Hang Gliding Championships have been
confirmed by the Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association of Canada and will be
hosted by the Lumby Air Force near the town of Lumby, BC, Canada.The event will run June 13-19, 2010 and will be based at main landing zone at
the Freedom Flight... mehr

Francesco Rinaldi <francorinaldi> writes:
Carbon Keels that fit perfectly on T2C and other gliders. Prices
will be available in approximately one week. mehr

The article and re
transponders. The conclusion:
I believe it's ok for us to fly in class E airspace. See section
4.7 (ii) - gives us access to E space. 3. 1(b) exempts us from VHF radio. I
believe the transponder exemption is described in the Aeronautical Information
Pack (1.5) section 6.1.2.The instrument CASA 202/98, I think, which... mehr

Stages of DevelopmentTeam Archaeopteryx writes:
After four years time of highly intensive development the new
Archaeopteryx took off on 14 December 2009 for the very first time. Since then
in dozens of flights test pilot André Hediger conducted the entire test
procedure which was planned. He stated that the brand-new airplane behaves in... mehr

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While XCSkies said that we would have eighteen knot winds at
4,000' (launch level) at 2 PM, it was very quiet down in Mt. Beauty and we
didn't have any clouds to give us an indication of the actual winds up above
(the forecast was for winds four knots higher than yesterday). We didn't get a... mehr

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I called off the fifth day of the Bogong Cup given the forecast
for 14 knot winds at 4000' at 2 PM from the west (5 degrees north of west). A... mehr

http://glidingforecast.on.net/RASP/RASPtable.html
Combining the previous two parameters, this depicts the Cumulus
Cloudbase only at locations where the Cumulus Potential parameter is positive.
This single plot can be used, instead of needing to look at both the Cumulus
Potential and Cumulus Cloudbase plots, if the threshold Cumulus Potential... mehr

Adriaan Mulder <adriaanrm> sends:
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I have made the track logs available.
The logs above are available in 5 compressed files, one for each task, including both IGC and KML files, totaling 8.5 MB, 31 MB when uncompressed. You can see all the tracks together in Google Earth in this single... mehr

http://www.alinghi.com/en/http://www.airborne.com.au/pages/news_n.cfm?id=214
Can you describe these devices? Are they planes, gliders? They are
a combination of both. They are basically a plane with floats on them, so they
can take off from the water and fly, but the idea is that we can measure the
wind speed at any height we like. With a... mehr

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre60a5ke-us-space-business/
The sky's no longer the limit for Cecil Field airport in
Jacksonville, Florida.The airport was awarded a federal license on Monday to fly commercial space
vehicles being designed to ferry tourists, researchers and others beyond Earth's
atmosphere. mehr

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With a forecast for southwest winds at eleven knots at 4,000' we
decide that we can go up Emu and likely fly. There is a forecast... mehr

S 32 19' 27.99'', E 149 31' 29.96'', Rylstone Airstrip, NSW,
Australia
I spoke with Francesco Rinaldi of
CR Systems
today. He is also the meet director for the 2010 pre-Worlds and
2011 Worlds in
Montecucco, Italy. Franco told me how much he loved flying in Forbes. He and his
wife and daughter live near Lake Como in northern Italy. They very... mehr

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Jamie Shelden stood in for Carl Wallbank who had to leave for England on the
last day (and we didn't fly that day). mehr

http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/Prairie-Wind.html
Changes in wind and air pressure in the first mile of atmosphere
could also have a detrimental effect on the performance of new jets the Air
Force was testing. To understand how air near the ground behaved—how it
circulated, how it warmed and cooled—the Air Force was... mehr

http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/Oldies-and-Oddities-Blown-Away.html
A Pratt & Whitney JT15D-1 turbofan was mounted in the nose, well
ahead of the cockpit and wing. The hot airstream exited the engine core, entered
a bifurcated duct, and exhausted just outside the fuselage through slots in the
top skins of both wings. Air... mehr