Wichita Vintage Glider Meet Sept. 26 Weekend

[tonycondon]

Local guys are organiznig a Vintage Glider Meet at the end of September. I'll be there with my glider, flying and possibly doing a presentation. It should be a fun time and there will be some cool old gliders there.

 

[tonycondon]

Bump.

I'll be giving a talk on Saturday morning about the flight testing I did on my glider last fall.

I'll be around for the cookout friday after work, all day saturday, and sunday. unless im out flying my glider of course

If anyone is going to come down let me know, and i'll be sure to set aside some time to get you up for a ride in the 2-33.

 

[Matthew]

Will have to miss it. I'll try to schedule better next time. I think about 4-5 guys from my club are planning on going down there, though.

 

[tonycondon]

matthew - are they bringing gliders? the club 1-26 would fit right in.

 

[Matthew]

I don't think they're going to bring any gliders - probably the 1-26 hasn't been taken apart for trailering in 10 years. The guy with the Libelle is planning on going down, but I don't think he's bringing his ship - it probably would not fit in anyway.

We did have a good day last weekend - of course I missed it. There were no instructors available and I needed to run errands all day anyway so I didn't go to the airport.

That was the day the temps were just right for a comfortable day. The Libelle disappeared for another 3-5 hour odyssey, and the Cirrus the 1-26 and the L-13 all shared the same thermal for about 90 minutes. I wish someone could have taken pictures of that.

 

[tonycondon]

early libelles are about the same age as my glider. others wil be there with higher performance ships than the old wood/fabric stuff. Harry Clayton is planning on flying his standard cirrus.

i'll look for the KC guys. sorry you can't make it.