General Photo Gallery

Me flying

Hawks Nest TN. 4 of the five 126s we have flying. 574E 482C 267B 142Std

Zeb prepares for the flight test from the back seat with CFIG Ted in front. Lake Village Indiana. Photo by Bruce White.

Boulder CO

Boulder tow...

Anke is ready for takeoff. Lake Village Indiana. Photo by Bruce White.

Ready to launch on first glider ride Lake Village Indiana. Photo by Bruce White.

Badge Ring

Looking across Yosemite N.P. 8/3/12

Last day of the season at Truckee 9/30/12

In wave over the West Shore of Lake Tahoe out of Truckee CA 9/9/12

Diana My first passenger 10/6/2012

Turning downwind to base. Cant see it in the photo but a tractor is raking grass just off the end of the runway. You want to try to miss those. Haha.

Airport in sight sort of. Those new runway markings look good as they go around and around and......

Sunshine through the canopy or Im just glowing from being up there

If you look closely at the dark sky you can see stars. Just kidding. Heading off into the wild blue yonder

All smiles and a thumbs up. You just cant beat a day of soaring

Sometimes you just have to stand it up. Must have been a small thermal Yeeehaaaa My IS29D2Lark.

ASW 20 on the tarmac.

126B sn267 New trim colors at Wolf River Airport 54MRossville TN September 2012

Baby Grob on tow out of Crystal in Llano CA. June 2011. Photo by George Tamayo.

Scott Alexander flying Peter Pfortners LS8 with Dragons Tooth Mountain in the background during a non contest day at the 2012 Region 4 South race.

Christopher Ian flying the Post Mills Soaring Club Blanik L23 with the mountains of New Hampshire in the background. Photo by Pete Dodd.

Long shadows mark the Nevada landscape at the end of a long September day after a 500Km flight from Crystalaire Ca to Yerington Nv.

Harris Hill after Diamond Goal Flight

Boundary Peak

Boundary Peak

The other cadets receiving their preflight briefing beside one of our gliders.

Me about to take off.

Janus C near Ely NV. Pretty clouds reflected by the refinished wing.

Janus C assembled at Jean for the first time since refinishing the wings.

Pretty clouds reflected by the Janus C wing. Photo taken near Ely NV

Landout at Conlen Texas on July 17 2012

Finger Lakes Soaring Clubs newly renovated Schweizer 126A just before the Return to Service flight with Chuck Zabinski at the ready for the flight to home airport at Dansville NY.

David Arnold pictured in his Schweizer 135c in which he recently completed the tasks for the SSAS Siver C Badge.

Ulf Ringertz UR gets help getting clear of the runway after landing. 7/5/2012

Ray Gimmey 7V gets a GREAT wing run to start the final day. 7/5/2012

Phillip Gaisford pushes his Discus 2B down the grid on Day 7. 7/5/2012

Peter Deane 2T coming home on the final day in style. 7/5/2012

Pete Alexander 98 dumping water just after finishing on Day 7. 7/5/2012

Pete Alexander 98 gets the first competition tow on the final day. 7/5/2012

Noel Wade PM getting ready to enter the pattern after finishing on the final day of competition. 7/5/2012

Gary Ittner prepares for the final day of competition.

Gary Ittner explains his Day 6 winning flight to the audience.

Allan Barnes SZ tows up on day 7.

LAK17B FES after returning from a long XC flight out of Moriarty NM on 6232012. Photo by Renny Rozzoni

A Discus 2B 3R and a 126C 483 after a fine day of soaring at Moriarty NM Photo by Renny Rozzoni

Eager students quickly turn N1187S around for another flight. Between this glider and another 233N5799S they made about 50 flights per day last week.

Flight Dynamics provided 2 gliders to Seminole Lake Gliderport for flight scholarships to 8 young students. I was reacquainted with a newglider I flew at Clover Field near Houston in 1973.

My flight route on Day 5 of the 2012 Std Class Nationals

Grid time on Day 5. 7/2/2012

Noel Wade PM on final for runway 35 on Day 4.

Richard VanGrunsven in the Antares 20E/18 on final with Mt Shasta in the background on Day 4. 7/1/2012

Noel Wade PM preparing for touch down on Day 4. 7/1/2012

Richard Pfiffner SD on short final on Day 4. 7/1/2012

Chip Garner GG and the Duckhawk clear the runway for Ray Gimmey 7V in his ASW29 on Day 4. 7/1/20912

Dick VanGrunsven in the Antares 18 on short final Day 4. 7/1/2012

Day 4 Grid Region 2 North at Wurtsboro Airport NY

Freedoms Wings Grob 103 waiting on the Grid on Day 4 of the Region 2 North Contest at Wurtsboro Airport.

RU at Ephrata 2002

Landout at Junction Utah Airport. Aerotow back to Parowan in time for diner. Photo by Dave Dunkel8AF

Freestyle weighing. Photo by Dr. Martha Martinez

Nadeen Willat helping clean Uncle Boyd F1 prior to launch

Craig I drove the car with trailer any my wife followed me. She stayed at the road while the pilots Sebastian and Robert and I drove the retrieve car into the middle of this huge field. After leaving about an hour and half later my wife tells me that about 10 various people came as she was parked on the main road and she had the awkward job of explaining that yes some guys landed an airplane but no it isnt a problem it is a sailplane contest and they are currently taking the wings off right now and will put the plane on a trailer. No really this kind of thing is normal.

Anyone can land at an airport Sebastian and Robert pilots Craig photo/retrieve

What is this strange piece of equipment doing in this overgrown field Sebestian and Robert pilots Craig photo/retrieve

F6 on the launch line with CAP Cadets at Moriarity 2012

With crew daughter Anna at Moriarity 2012

Getting pushed out to the launch line by Cap Cadets at Moriarity Contest.

D2 John Dudely finds some shade under the wing of his ASW20

A trio of Genesis II ready to race on day 5

Uli Neumann of Carolina Soaring Association waits for a tow at the Sports Class Nationals in Parowan UT.

Day 2... 82

Miss Piggy with glider in tow on 1st contest day

CCSCs beautiful clubhouse

Back of the grid under a promising sky on Day 2

Curt Lewis 95 one of only 2 finishers on Day 1.

Jeff Russell accepts his CCSC cup for winning Day 1.

Curt Lewis 95 gives Day 2s safety talk on soaring around thunderstorms

Tango Alpha Frank Paynter switches hats and gives the weather breifing on Day 2

cant reach the pedal....sigh...

Crazy Janice

west line

V6

tourists

touring

Tom Udd

the hulk

Duane

Gary