Laughter-Silvered Wings...
Concur with Cows getting bigger, jimjim1 - a fantastic compilation of photographs! I had 760 hours on my PPL-SEL back in 1983 when I took up soaring in Jackson, Mississippi, of all places. My then-girlfriend and I were picnicking on the banks of the Ross Barnett Reservoir when a Blanik L-13 on short final swooped and swished over us at 200 feet. Taken by the sight and deaf to the plaints of my lady, an hour later I was front seat in that very craft, amazed that an all-metal, forward-swept glider possessed such a reasonable L/D ratio: 1/28! I loved flying a stick, too! I graduated to Grob 103's at Caesar Creek Soaring Club here in Ohio some years later. This is the largest soaring club in the United States and is replete with wonderful people and a wide assortment of aircraft. Now that Spring has sprung at our latitude, it's time to get a tow to 3,000, catch a thermal, and revel in the glory of it all...
- Ed
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