George Worthington Launching in the Owens Valley, 1977ish
George Worthington in the Owens Valley.
Glider ride over the California landscape
Jade from We Travel and Blog and her little brother Ken take a roller-coaster ride in the sky over the rolling hills of Northern California. Check the blog for the full blog post
Gliding In California Aka California Gliding Meet (1938)
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Titles read: GLIDING IN CALIFORNIA.
Duplicate of story GLIDER MEET IN CALIFORNIA in 38/35. See separate record for details.
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Gliding Demonstration In California (1939)
Full titles read: GLIDING IN CALIFORNIA
L/S's of people preparing their gliding for take-off in California in the United States of America. Excellent aerial footage taken an airborne glider. Various L/S's of the gliders in flight. M/S of the back of a female pilot's head in a cockpit. L/'S of rolling hills. L/S of a gliders coming into to land.
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Llano, California
Llano, California
Llano is an unincorporated community located in Los Angeles County, California, near the San Bernardino County line The town has a population of about 1,200citation needed
Contents
1 Geography
11 Climate
2 Details
3 History
4 Notable residents
5 References
Geography
Llano is located about 25 miles 40km southeast of Palmdale in the Antelope Valley portion of Southern California The town of Pearblossom lies to the west, while the town of Pinon Hills lies to the east
Pearblossom Highway State Route 138 runs through the heart of Llano and is its principal street
Climate
The region experiences warm but not hot and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 716 °F According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Llano has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated Csb on climate maps1
Details
Postal ZIP code: 93544
County: Los Angeles
Population: 1201
Telephone area code: 661
History
Llano is a name derived from Spanish meaning plain2
Llano was once the home of English writer Aldous Huxleycitation needed
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2014 18 Meter US National Championship - Practice Day 1 (June 8) - Minden, NV
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MSU Soaring Club
Mississippi State University's Soaring Club flying at George Bryan field in Starkville, MS on 03 MAR 13. For more info on the club, visit The flight in this video was a formation demonstration flight being flown by one of our instructors. Great fun!
PA28 - Flying across California
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This is a short movie I put together during my timebuilding in California, USA. The airplane is a Piper Archer III, 180hp. All together I flew about 80 hours and over the length of California, from Ashland to San Diego.
A small sample from a amazing trip, hope you like it!
Airports in order of apperance:
-Tracy Municipal Airport
-Harris Ranch Airport
-Ashland Municipal Airport
-Tracy Municipal Airport
-Porterville Airport
-Tracy Municipal Airport
-Santa Monica Municipal Airport
-Montgomery Regional Airport
Music: Imagine Dragons - Round and round
Special thanks to Skyview Aviation for the lease of an excellent aeroplane, and to my brother Calle Källgren, for lending me his GoPro!
Stopping by Caeser Creek Soaring Club June 15 2014
great place to ride by and see what's happening when the thermals are active ... this was a competition day ... a timed course marked by cities and landmarks as I was explained ...
Solo Soaring over Cunderdin
My second solo flight at the Gliding Club of Western Australia, Cunderdin W.A. Aircraft is a PW-6U two seat trainer, towing behind the club's Pawnee tug. The flight was 1hr 10 min in length with a late launch at the end of the day. Weather was lovely with a 6kt NW breeze, blue conditions and the moderate strength thermals had been going to around 5,500' during the day. By the time I launched, thermals were up to 7,500' and I was able to top out at the inversion midway into the flight after finding a nice 8kt thermal near the airfield.
Filmed with an AEE Magicam SD-21
Resolution: 1920x1080p @ 25fps (PAL)
Bitrate: High
Field of View: 145°
Metering: Centre
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Texas Soaring Association (TSA) Learn to fly glider sailplane Roy Dawson video
The Texas Soaring Association (TSA) is a non-profit corporation devoted to motorless flight. Established in 1947, the club is located 15 minutes south of Midlothian, Texas, which is itself at the southern edge of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The club is maintained and operated by the voluntary efforts of its more than 200 members. The club operates from its own airfield and owns six single and four two-place sailplanes, plus four Pawnee towplanes. TSA operates year round on most flyable Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The club also operates on an unscheduled basis on other weekdays when the flying weather is really good!
Why learn to fly gliders?
The Wright brothers knew that the way to get into aviation was through gliders. Their experiments in design and practical application in flying gliders helped them to understand the complexities of powered flight. If you are new to aviation, learning to fly gliders provides basic skills valuable to any aviation pursuit.
If you are an experienced pilot, you could join the rank of glider pilots such as Steve Fossett, Neil Armstrong, Chesley Sullenberger and many other renowned aviators. Flying sailplanes may re-introduce you to the joy of basic flight which doesn’t require noisy, gas guzzling engines or complicated technology to fly.
Why join TSA?
One of the oldest and largest glider clubs in America, Texas Soaring Association has been in continuous operation since 1947. We are a private club and a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation under Texas law. The concept is that all members contribute whatever they can to help the club run efficiently in order to keep the costs down. Volunteers do everything from clubhouse maintenance, hangar help (inexperienced welcome) and hooking up gliders to acting as tow pilots or instructors. No one profits from the club or gets any compensation other than the fun of hanging out around airplanes and people who love them. This is a place for families to come and spend the day.
For the beginning pilot.
After joining the club and completing the orientation process, you will be assigned an instructor. However, you may fly with any instructor who is available. Your first goal will be to solo, which permits you to fly by yourself with an instructor supervising from the ground.
This is a fun activity, but not to be taken lightly. All aircraft and pilots are regulated, licensed and inspected under Federal Aviation Regulations.
The course of instruction requires study of regulations and other written materials. Plan on about $50 for purchase of books (available at the club) to help you along. The first emphasis at TSA is safety. This is the commitment we expect from all members. In order to learn, you must keep some continuity in your training. Students who show up once a month to take a lesson will not progress at an acceptable rate and will almost certainly become frustrated and drop out. Although weather and other factors can get in the way, if you can’t plan on being at TSA twice a month when learning, you may be wasting your time. Many members will come out to the club even when the weather is unflyable. We hang around airplanes, keep things working and tell tall tales.
Once soloed, you will work towards the Private Pilot Certificate. This releases you from several legal constraints on what and where you can fly and will give you the authority to take up passengers
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Carlsbad California RC Glider Flight
Abandoned Colony of Llano Del Rio - California Desert
The abandoned ruins of a utopian socialist colony from the 1910's in the Mojave Desert in California. See the video at:
Big stone pillars can be seen on the highway leading to Pearblossom in the California Mojave Desert. The ruins are part of an old abandoned utopian colony called Llano Del Rio (River Plain) and this was going to be one interesting place to explore. It really intrigued me as to why anyone would attempt to create a living in such a desolate environment.
Llano Del Rio was a failed socialist utopian colony that was active from 1914 to 1918 in the California desert. The stone ruins of the buildings and aqueduct are all that is left of an ambitious experiment of a former ordained minister named Job Harriman.
Being impressed by a popular novel called “Looking Backward” by Edward Bellamy (please refer to our blog post on the Bradbury Building about who else was inspired by the book), Job Harriman decided that it would serve as an inspiration for him and his comrades to create their own self sufficient society. Job Harriman once ran for the California Governorship in 1898, ran for the Vice President of the United States with Eugene V. Debs under the Socialist Party in 1900, and ran twice for the mayor of Los Angeles in the 1910’s. He was not successful in any of the campaigns.
After his last defeat, he decided to try and establish a collective based upon his socialist principles and invited like minded people with their families to join (Note: This was not offered to people of color or other races besides Caucasian). Beginning with just five families, eventually the colony grew to over 1,000 people in 1914. They had established various enterprises such as a hotel, sawmill, bakery, kiln, and a print shop to publish their socialist newspaper, “The Western Comrade”. Their biggest and most successful crop was growing 2,000 acres (20 ha) of irrigated alfalfa. Although they owned the water rights to the land, an earthquake later shifted the water flow away and they applied for a permit to build a dam. Well, due to the complaints from local farmers that the community was using too much water and not being too fond of their socialist views, the permit was denied and they were also hit with a bunch of lawsuits. Fighting and disagreements of how to run the colony also added to the strain of staying in the current location, therefore, in 1918, the colonists (60 families) abandoned the California desert and relocated to form New Llano in Louisiana. Job Harriman did not care for the new place and returned to Los Angeles where he passed away in 1925. New Llano only survived to the 1930’s.
Walking around the ruins of the colony, I could see the remnants of buildings with stone fireplaces, concrete foundations, and stairs leading to nowhere, old swimming pools and strange looking holding tanks. The local granite boulders used to construct the walls were slowly giving way to the harsh desert environment. A pile of old rusted cans have been used for target practice and unfortunately there is some graffiti too. I was glad to have visited and experienced the site because soon, all of the ruins will probably disappear like the colonists did almost 100 years ago.
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Eagle Rock by Wes Hutchinson
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November Soaring At Arlington, WA.
This is a solo flight taken on November 10, 2012. I wasn't expecting any lift at all because the cold air was hugging the ground. I flew an earlier flight with an instructor and noticed that the smoke was pressed to the ground. After release from tow on my second (solo) flight, I happened to notice that one of the nearby smoke stacks had risen. My curiousity paid off this day. It was really fun.
Disclaimer: I am a student pilot. I occasionally record videos (this is my third) for my review to help take notes on what I can improve on. My intention is not to become a youtube poster with a new video of every flight. However, I thought that this was a good one to show to friends and family.
Since I've started flying solo and don't have the back seat pilot talking to me, I talk to myself during my flights. I will tell myself if I'm doing something wrong. I also tend to make situations appear to be more dramatic than they actually are. For example, my landing. I was saying that I must go faster during final approach. However, there was no headwind or crosswind to speak of. 50kts is more than appropriate for a landing in those conditions. Had there been a headwind, then I would have needed to go faster.
Motorless flights in sky during 10th Annual Soaring Contest in Elmira, New York. HD Stock Footage
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Motorless flights in sky during 10th Annual Soaring Contest in Elmira, New York.
People pushing a flight to the track as the 10th Annual Soaring Contest gets underway in Elmira, New York. The motorless flight takes off. Flights tied with wire. Two flights flying in the sky. United States flag waves and a flight passing by. Location: Elmira New York. Date: June 1939.
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Prue 215A Sailplane Glider Flight Tehachapi VSA
First flight of the Prue 215A after restoration at the VSA Western Regatta in Tehachapi, California. USA.
This is the only flying example in existence. The first prototype crashed during testing. This is serial number 1, number two was never finished and is in the National Soaring Museum.
N90612 was built and flown in 1952, came in second place in the 1958 national soaring competition. It was on the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine in 1966 with the first mini jet turbine engine mounted above the wing. Restored in 2014 in Bakersfield, CA. Still need to strip and paint the wings, but enough paint stripper for now!
Sheephead Mountain - Peak #26 - A Cold Morning in Mount Laguna
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After the holidays and a lengthy battle with the flu, I was ready to get back on the trail. It was a chilly pre-dawn morning, but alive with the promise of sun and beautiful blue skies. On the road to the trail head in Mount Laguna, the sun started to peek out behind the eastern mountains, bathing Sheephead Mountain in a beautiful orange glow. The smoky mountains to the south seemed to go on forever.
I was also excited to be completing a peak on the Sierra Clubs Hundred Peak Section.
I got to the trail head, and once again, I was the only other people within a few miles. Although the sun was shining a little on me, it the icy wind chilled me to the bones after leaving my heated car. I put on some layers and headed out on the trail.
I headed out on the trail, happy to be warming up with the exertion. The trail went downhill, out of sight of the sun, but I was warm enough by then and the trees and canyon shielded me from the wind. I have read that this trail skirts and plunges through private property, so I was on high alert, as I dont want to recommend anyone entering private property on the way to a peak.
I rounded a corner and saw Sheephead Mountain in front of me, with the boulders on top that look, to me, like an entire sheep, not just the head. I followed the path, getting used to the idea that any elevation gain would be in the last .4 miles. I came across a gate that said I could be arrested if I went into the property. All of the trail reports online instructed me to head on through. After pouring through some online maps after Ive returned, I think the true property line for the private lane is further along the road, and if you follow a very slight trail where there is a stacked rock, you will avoid private land altogether. I am going to research more on this for the book, so I dont get anyone arrested.
I, however, found the bottom of the wash as described in other trail reports and headed on up. And by up I mean up. I gained 624 feet of elevation in .4 miles. With the sandiness of the trail, my loss of conditioning due to the flu, and the manzanita tearing at the skin on my shins, it seemed like a lot longer than .4 miles. I turned around and could see the valley below where I came from.
The winds continued to increase, the further up I got, and I realized how close we were to Monument Peak, where I got blown all over the place. I made it to the top and was presented with a view of Cuyamaca Peak and Stonewall Peak and most of the southern section of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park. I briefly scrambled to the stop of the sheep boulder, but quickly descended, as I was being buffeted by high winds.
I found some shelter in the lee side of the stone before I made my way back down.
USAFA Soaring 94th FTS
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