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COMING EVENTS
37th Annual Experimental Soaring
Association Western Workshop 2017
(Labor Day Weekend - Exact dates to be announced)
Mountain Valley Airport (L94), Tehachapi, California

ed. – It is time to mark your calendars for the Western Workshop and make your motel or camp ground reservations for this great event. Al Bowers is still lining up the speakers so if you have something you would like to present or know of someone who has a great topic of interest to the group, please let him know ASAP. He can be reached at:
albion.h.bowers@nasa.gov

Notice to Carbon Dragon Builders:

Permission to use this photo from the Maupin family

A new professional quality website:
Two Important Links"

http://www.ihpa.ie/carbon-dragon/

Forum for Builders of Jim Maupin Designs
(Woodstock, Windrose, Carbon Dragon and Stealth Primary)

In Sailplane Builder, Phil Lardner announced a new forum for the Carbon Dragon builders. This replaces the website, carbondragon.us which has been static for some time. Even though the website has been static, it enjoys over 100 visits each week ... proving the ongoing interest in this decades old design. There are few designs available for those who wish to exploit Microlift (Wikipedia LINK). Anything important was moved to Phil's website; plus, there is loads of new, current information on Phil's website.

Amazingly, Phil was able to resurrect the Yahoo Group, Carbondragonbuildersandpilots which was deleted without warning. Phil had saved a majority of the posts which are now available through a forum he had created.

This example demonstrates that if there is information on the web that you need ... download it to your hard drive. With the extremely low cost for massive capacity disk drives, you can save everything (2 terabyte drives are available for about $100).

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Anybody have a self-launch winch? A contest in Kansas run by Gary Osoba featured a winch based
on a remote controlled motorcycle. It is said that Cushman scooters are great for light sailplanes.