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Aerodynamics for Soaring Pilots (Millicer)
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GFA |
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Aerodynamics for Students (University of Sydney)
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USYD |
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On Airfoils (Jaroslav Lnenicka)
On Airfoils is a book about just that, airfoils! This 110 page, softbound book includes countless diagrams and illustrations. On Airfoils explains the nomenclature used in describing airfoils, provides airfoil cross-sections and coordinates. Learn how to understand airfoil polars and Reynolds numbers as well as the affects of changing airfoil thickness, camber and shape. An excellent addition to your aviation reference library. |
Kiona |
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At last: an instrument that reads drag! (Dick Johnson)
Dick Johnson develops a system that measures how much drag your wing is creating, and displays the changes. |
Schreder Sailplane Designs |
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Basic Sailplane Engineering
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GFA |
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The Collected Works of Stan Hall
A compilation of the writings of Stan Hall, a prolific author of sailplane design, construction, flying and testing. |
Sailplane Homebuilders Association |
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Effect of Aerodynamic Design on Glider Performance (Lippisch)
1935 report on glider performance theory by A. Lippisch. |
NASA (pdf) NASA (gif) |
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Flugzeugtypen #1 - Sailplanes
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Kiona |
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Flugzeugtypen #5 - Sailplanes 2
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Kiona |
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Flugzeugtypen #6 - Sailplanes 3
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Kiona |
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Fundamentals of Hydro and Aeromechanics (Prandtl, Tietjens)
This book is a fluid-dynamics masterpiece. Maybe it's a little bit out dated now, but it's the book two or three generations of fluid scientists (30s-50s) used during their studies. Definitely a must-have for the serious theoretical fluid dynamicist, not the right book if you're looking for computational methods. -- A reader in Italy |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Fundamentals of Sailplane Design (Thomas)
An in-depth look at the design of gliders. |
Amazon.com BGA BW K&G SSA |
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An Instrument for Drag Measurement in Flight (Althaus)
D. Althaus presents a drag rake design that improves on those of Dick Johnson. |
Technical Soaring (1993) |
| Johnson Flight Test Evaluations and Articles (Dick Johnson) | SSA |
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More with Less: Paul MacCready and the Dream of Efficient Flight The account of Dr. Paul MacCready and his dream of low-powered efficient flight. |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk SSA |
| The Paths of Soaring Flight (Irving) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Sailplane Performance Flight Test Measurments (Dick Johnson)
Dick presents five basic methods for obtaining creditable sailplane polar measurements. |
Soaring Magazine (May 1989) |
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Static Stability and Control of Sailplanes (Piero Morelli)
A specialty book that applies to sailplanes the concepts and methods of aircraft stability and control. Although old (1976) the book is still valid. May order from: OSTIV, c/o TU-Delft Fac. Aerospace Engineering, Kluyverweg 1, NL-2629 HS Delft, The Netherlands, Phone: (++31)15 278 6387, Fax : (++31)15 278 3533. |
OSTIV Secretariat (email) |
| Theory of Flight for Glider Pilots (Claude, Allen) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk GFA |
| Theory of Flight (Von Mises) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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The Totally FREE Airfoil Primer (John Dreese)
Did you ever wish someone would write a book on airfoils for the average pilot? Something that would give you an engineer's insight into what wings really do, without making your head swim? John Dresse has done just that, and made it available on his web site (DreeseCode Software) in PDF file format just for you. John writes with clarity and humor. Check it out! |
DreeseCode |
| Understanding Gliding: The Principles of Soaring Flight (Piggott) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk ABPE K&G |
| Performance Enhancement of Modern Sailplanes (Masak) | K&G |
| The Carbon Dragon Flies! (Carla Page) | Carbon Dragon Technical Website |
| Toward a 20 Hour Work-Week (Gary Osoba) | OWP |
| More on Microlift Techniques (Gary Osoba) | OWP |
| Why Microlift Soaring? (Piero Morelli and Eric de Boer) | OWP (pdf) |
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Aircraft Inspection & Repair A.U.S.
Guide recommended by the Technical Committee. |
BGA |
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Glass Fibre Repairs (Slingsby)
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GFA |
| Polish Woodwork Manual | GFA |
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Restoring Museum Aircraft (Mikesh)
A great, but non soaring, book is "Restoring Museum Aircraft" by Robert Mikesh. He was curator of Smithsonian Air and Space... . Anyone that likes aircraft in general will love this book. This colorful book shows several interesting aircraft along with discussions of the many considerations in restoration. It's a super gift for anyone that is interested in older aircraft. (Bob Gaines, Vintage Sailplane Assn., National Soaring Museum) |
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Standard Repairs to Gliders (BGA)
The BGA repair manual. |
BGA GFA |
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Weight and Balance Notes
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GFA |
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Sailplanes, 1920-1945 (Martin Simons)
Features 12 U.S. gliders. Magnificent, sharply reproduced black and white photographs. |
Contact: Paul Blacksten, P.O. Box 307, Maywood, CA 90270 Kiona |
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Sailplanes 1945-1965 (Simons) This is the second volume of Sailplanes by Martin Simons. It describes the extraordinary transformation in soaring from 1945-1965. To take advantage of discoveries in low drag aerodynamics it became necessary to develop new structures and methods of contruction. Almost every possible combination of materials and techniques was tried with varying success. A great variety of sailplane types appeared. As in Volume 1, the drawings illustrating this work are on a constant scale of 1:50 with cross sections and leading dimensions. Colour shading indicates the materials used. Numerous coloured and black and white photographs are included. |
Contact: Paul Blacksten, P.O. Box 307, Maywood, CA 90270 Kiona |
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Segelflugzeuge: Vom Wolf zum Mini-Nimbus
[Flugzeugbau bei Schempp-Hirth und Wolf Hirth 1935 bis Heute]
(Selinger)
Translated into English, the title reads "Gliders: From the Wolf to the Mini Nimbus [Aircraft Construction by Schempp-Hirth and Wolf Hirth, 1935 until Today]". Although written in German, this is an invaluable source of historical and technical information on glider built by Schempp-Hirth up to the Mini-Nimbus. It contains listings of manufacture dates, registrations and original owners of every glider. A newer edition (ISBN 3613011042) takes the history through the Discus. |
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Slingsby Sailplanes (Simons)
Martin Simons has done an enormous service for all who have an interest in the history of soaring by telling the story of Fred Slingsby and the three dozen types of gliders his British firm produced over 5 decades. ... This unique book meets the needs of both ends of the spectrum, from the technical details to the narrative story about the people who produced the machines. His three view drawings are excellent, and he pays particular attention to showing the airfoils and cross sections used in the construction of the graceful machines. It stops short of showing the performance polars of these gliders, but he gives great insight into how they were flown and of the economics which dictate what designs are destined to thrive and those that are remembered only as a footnote. -- Cam Martin, Tehachapi, CA |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk Kiona |
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The Worlds Vintage Sailplane, 1908-1945 (Simons) A 176-page hardback book by Martin Simons about the world's vintage sailplanes. This, the first comprehensive and authoritative reference work on the subject, presents a great international variety of fascinating or significant early types together with the largest selection of detailed scale views and photographs yet assembled in one publication. Radio control modellers and sailplane enthusiasts alike will be delighted with such an extensive collection of scale drawings by the author. |
Contact: Paul Blacksten, P.O. Box 307, Maywood, CA 90270 Kiona |
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10,000 Feet and Climbing: Dick Schreder's Aviation Adventures (Schreder) This fascinating book was written and contributed to by many authors who know him, and Richard's daughter Karen, who as a youngster accompanied him during his later gliding adventure years, and carefully compiled it. ... (Read the rest of this review by Dick Johnson.) |
BW K&G SSA schreder@bright.net |
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Delta Papa, A Life Of Flying (Piggott) A fascinating autobiography by Derek Piggott MBE, covering the multiple facets of an unbelievable career, including the war years, test flying, stunt flying for the film industry, and much more, with forward by Sir Peter Scott CBE, DSC. |
ABPE SSA |
A Glider Pilot Bold (Wally Kahn)
Wally was responsible for hiring Derek as Chef Flight Instructor of the Lasham Gliding Club back in 1953. They worked together for thirty seven years to make Lasham the incredible site that it is today. (Review) |
ABPE BGA GFA |
| Great Glider Pilots Part 2 (Berg) | GFA |
| Memoirs of Gliding and Soaring: 1933-1943 (Bellak) | Amazon.com |
| Soaring With the Schweizers (Schweizer) | SSA |
The Wright Way: 7 Problem-Solving Principles from the Wright Brothers That Can Make Your Business Soar (Mark Eppler)
How did two high school dropouts with less than $1,000 solve the greatest problem of the century in a matter of months, when teams of well-financed scientists and engineers couldn't find a solution after decades of trying? Some credit genius or just good luck, but Eppler says it was the application of a set of problem-solving principles the Wright Brothers learned at home and honed through several business ventures. These principles are every bit as applicable to today's business problems. (excerpt) |
Amazon.com |
| Winning II (Moffat) | K&G |
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| After All (Seibels) | K&G SSA |
| British Gliders and Sailplanes, 1922-1970 (Ellison) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Exploring the Monster (Whelan) | K&G SSA |
| Glider Mail: An Aerophilatelic Handbook (Short, Barber) | Amazon.com |
| A History of Aerodynamics: And Its Impact on Flying Machines (Anderson) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| On Quiet Wings: A Soaring Anthology (Lincoln) | Amazon.com |
| Sailplanes By Schweizer: A History (Schweizer) | K&G SSA Kiona |
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The Worlds Vintage Sailplane, 1908-1945 (Simons) A 176-page hardback book by Martin Simons about the world's vintage sailplanes. This, the first comprehensive and authoritative reference work on the subject, presents a great international variety of fascinating or significant early types together with the largest selection of detailed scale views and photographs yet assembled in one publication. Radio control modellers and sailplane enthusiasts alike will be delighted with such an extensive collection of scale drawings by the author. |
Kiona |
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Sailplanes 1945-1965 (Simons) This is the second volume of Sailplanes by Martin Simons. It describes the extraordinary transformation in soaring from 1945-1965. To take advantage of discoveries in low drag aerodynamics it became necessary to develop new structures and methods of contruction. Almost every possible combination of materials and techniques was tried with varying success. A great variety of sailplane types appeared. As in Volume 1, the drawings illustrating this work are on a constant scale of 1:50 with cross sections and leading dimensions. Colour shading indicates the materials used. Numerous coloured and black and white photographs are included. |
Kiona |
| Silence on the Wind (Frank Franke & Helmut Reichmann) | GFA |
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SOAR AMERICA (Joss) John Joss has captured a little piece of the spirit that makes soaring the great sport it is. He spares no energy in the selection of over twenty authors and their stories. The reader is given a sense of the editor's expression "a third dimension" i.e. the ascent skyward in sailplanes. A bargain at $1.00. |
SSA |
| The Story of Gliding (Welch, Edmonds) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Take Up Slack (Hull)
Tells about the London Gliding club's history. |
BGA |
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Turnpoints (Seibels) This book is Seibel’s fourth book on soaring and contains reminiscences of flight training during WWII, and on to modern cross-country and competition soaring. It is highlighted with anecdotes and insights about the fascination of flying and its extraordinary specialty – Soaring. |
K&G GFA SSA |
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Unlocking the Sky: Glen Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane (Shulman) Who really should be credited with inventing the first heavier-than-air machine capable of carrying humans, and who should be credited with the various innovations that combined to make human flight practical? The answers to these questions are not as simple as you may imagine. The figures that receive most of the glory are the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss. Their contributions and their legal battles are legendary, but most people know little of what really happened. This book is an eye opener for those of us who only know that the Wright brothers were first in 1903 at Kitty Hawk. Most people versed in the events from 1903 to the outbreak of WWI, take sides with either the Wright brothers or Glenn Hammond Curtiss. This book illuminates the developments and legal battles relevant to aviation that marked that crucial period of innovation. It is an interesting read and very much worth while, though the author is unashamedly biased in favor of Glenn Curtiss. Shulman tells the story of Glenn Curtiss, a truly remarkable inventor who understood how to succeed by competing rather than seeking to monopolize an entire industry. - Jim Hendrix |
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| Wind and Wings: the History of Soaring in San Diego (Gary Fogel) | Amazon.com SSA |
| Wings Like Eagles (Schweizer) | Amazon.com BW K&G SSA |
| With Wings As Eagles: The Story of Soaring (Stephen, Halacy) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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| Arnhem Lift: A Fighting Glider Pilot Remembers (Hagen, Behr) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Glider Soldiers (Wood) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| The Glider Gang: An Eyewitness History of World War II Glider Combat (World War II Monographs, Vol. 48) (Dank) | Amazon.com |
| The Glider Gladiators (of World War II): A Historical Novel (Perna) | Amazon.com |
| The Glider Pilot War at Home and Overseas (Beeson) | Amazon.com |
| The Glider War (Mrazek) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| The History of the Glider Pilot Regiment (Smith, Richards) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| The History of the World's Glider Forces (Wood) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| I Learned To Fly For Hitler (Volmar) | Amazon.com BGA BW |
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Pilot's Summer: a Central Flying School Diary (Tredrey)
This is a diary account of a flying instructor's course in 1935 in the vintage days of RAF Central Flying School at RAF Wittering. |
Amazon.co.uk BGA |
| Skyriders: History of the 327/401 Glider Infantry (McDonough, Gardner) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Wings of Pegasus: British Glider Pilot Regiment (Chatterton) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| World War II Glider Pilots (Turner Publishing Company Staff) | Amazon.com |
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| Crosswind (Valdata) | K&G |
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Free Flight (Douglas Terman, 1980) Post WW3 in a motor glider. This is one of the best adventure books I have ever read. Anyone who likes to stay up all night and read should get this one. -- Dean E. Turner Suggestion: Search Amazon.co.uk for other editions. |
Amazon.com (used) Amazon.co.uk (used) |
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The Green Air (David Harper, 1973) World Soaring Contest in Alaska. |
Amazon.com (used) |
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Into the Blue (Gerald Hammond, 2000) Soaring background to love/intrigue story. |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story (Richard Bach)
Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me young. -- Ray Bradbury |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
| Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story [Abridged Audio CD] (Richard Bach) | Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Reich Angel (Anita Mason, 1994) Fictionalized Hanna Reich story. |
Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk |
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Sierra Sierra (John Joss, 1978) Long cross country flight/Vietnam. This deserves to be a motion picture ... - David C. Phillips |
Amazon.com (used) |
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The Sky Trap (DS Halacy, Jr., 1975) Juvenile fiction. |
Amazon.com (used) |
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| The Platypus Papers (Michael Bird, a.k.a. Platypus) | BGA BW WMS Hikoki SSA |
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Air Sports International
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http://airsports.fai.org |
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Free Flight (The journal of the Soaring Association of Canada)
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www.sac.ca/page9.htm |
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Gliding & Motorgliding International (Gillian Bryce-Smith, editor)
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www.glidermagazine.com |
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Sailplane & Gliding
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www.gliding.co.uk/sailplaneandgliding/news.htm |
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Sailplane Builder
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www.sailplanehomebuilders.com |
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Soaring
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www.ssa.org/Magazines |
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| Cloudbase - Music CD (Ed Kilbourne) | SSA |
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| Soaring on the Wind: A Photographic Essay on Silent Flight (Lincoln) | Amazon.com |
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1000 Km on an Appalachian Ridge by - VHS (Noyes)
David Noyes documents a 1 Km ridge flight flight from Sequachee Valley, near Knoxville, to Tom Knauff's place in Pennsylvania. He taped from a rotatable camera above the fuselage. The sound track is music and radio communications. At one point he had to thermal up to wave to get over obscured conditions below. There is a marvelous sequence where he's joined by another glider. The shot, into the setting sun, of that glider turning back for home is beautiful. If you've never ridge soared, this gives a good impression of the experience |
K&G |
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Champions of the Wave - VHS (Wild South Videos, New Zealand)
This is a very nicely done documentary on the 1995 Worlds at Omarama, New Zealand when Ray Linsky, using local knowledge, beat the German team. Excellent cinematography, sound track and simulation graphics. |
AE GFA K&G SSA |
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Dawn Flight - VHS
Shows how self-confidence, competitive drive and maturity affect peak performance. A young glider pilot is pushed to his limit, eventually resolving the confrontation and earning the freedom that comes with self-awareness. Expensive. |
Pyramid Media |
| Discover Soaring: A Transition To Gliders - VHS | SSA |
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A Fine Week of Soaring - DVD/VHS (Juan Mandelbaum)
The best film I have ever seen on contest flying. The photography is super and the story line perfect. -- Charlie Spratt (Review) |
GeoVision K&G SSA (DVD) SSA (VHS) |
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Going the Distance - VHS and DVD (Naton) Going the Distance takes you to the 2001 Open Class Soaring Championships. It also includes action from the 18 Meter and Sports Class Nationals. 65 minutes of pure soaring action. Note: Older DVD players cannot handle this DVD format. Check the compatibility list. You may have to settle for the VHS version. (Review) |
Radio Carbon Art |
| Let's Go Gliding - Lake Keepit Video | GFA |
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Quiet Challenge - VHS (John Denver)
This is a good introduction to the sport of soaring. It focuses on Baron Hilton winners from around the world who come to Baron Hilton's ranch for a week of record setting attempts. |
SSA |
| Running on Empty - VHS (Narrated by Cliff Robertson) | SSA |
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Redline Sky - DVD (Radius)
Redline Sky is a new, high-quality compilation DVD featuring two hours of soaring films that all glider enthusiasts will enjoy. This all digital production features professional photography, a superb sound track, and beautiful design. 1 hour 58 minutes. |
Radio Carbon Art K&G Go Soaring SSA |
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The Sun Ship Game - VHS (Robert Drew)
Competition soaring as it really is! This marvelous documentary compares the personalities and competition philosophies of two soaring pilots, George Moffat and Gleb Derujinsky, at the 1969 Nationals in Marfa. Also features Wally Scott. It's dated but still vary good. 82 minutes. |
Direct Cinema still has a few copies left as of March 2003. It sin't listed on their web site. You will have to call them (310-636-8200) and ask for it. |
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Wind Born: A Journey into Flight - VHS (Wild South Videos, New Zealand)
Another very well done video from New Zealand. This one tells the story of 16 year old Lucy Wills learning, from her father Gavin Wills, to fly gliders. The story ends with a dramatic two glider foray into a remote fjord in the south reaches of the South island. All of the spectacular footage is actual. No simulations. |
AE GFA K&G SSA |
| Zulu Romeo Good Start | GFA |
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