Flights made toward soaring badges
A full accounting of cross-country camp this year really begins two weeks before camp began. June 15, 2025 was Miss Isabel Ulland’s 16th birthday—which she celebrated by passing her glider checkride, one week before heading off to the Region 8 contest with the L33. Here she is with DPE Robin Reid. My wife, Candida, and […]
The Old Man and The Kid The Old Man was not always Old; he had been Young once, and dreamed of Flight. And when he was Young, he had an Old Man of his own that dreamed of flight before him. That Old Man, the first of his line to reach Boyhood in the Aviation
Hood River Soaring teamed up with the SSA and SGC to host a national junior cross-country development academy to be held at Ephrata the first week of July 2024. Despite a number of mentor pilots having been onsite as contestants at the prior week’s Region 8 Contest, they were ready and willing to stay and
Silver Badge Flight Not to torture anyone with more details, but I figured I might as well document yesterday’s flight, since it was as much a surprise to me and a good example of a dissipating inversion ending up behaving exactly as predicted (or at least guessed). “Never give in, never give in, never, never,
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