SHA Member Activities
    (What our members and friends are doing)
    [Created 3/6/2002, updated 9/19/2004] ... see below
    Note: Click on Image or Underlined Text and Titles
     
    Mark Stucky    writes: 
    Updated email address:
    The next public showing of the LightHawk will be at the Sailplane Homebuilders’ Association meeting at 
    Tehachapi , CA on August 31st. 
    Web sites for the LightHawk:
       www.glidersport.net   
    www.pure-flight.com 
    LightHawk – pilot's report  page down to LightHawk, Excerpt: "I started hang gliding 28 years ago, began flying sailplanes 22 years ago, and paragliding 10 years ago. Every time I'm in a sailplane and encounter a good thermal I find myself wishing I could somehow transport myself into a hang glider. During the 87 minutes I spent soaring the LightHawk, not once did I wish I was in anything else."
     
    Updated Terry Wells email address ...  
    Terry Wells    reports on a one-off, all composite/carbon glider that will have a Rotax 447 buried in the fuselage.  He states, "Now if I can just get the exhaust system in there also."  ... Any plans for plans? view 1, view 2, view 3  
     
     
    Straton D8 Ultra-light Motor Glider  
    Hugo Garcia ,  , writes that he had the "factory" do the build to save time, and because of their expertise.  In his words, "The plane is remarkable!!  I have yet to fly it this video is the "test flight" by "factory" prior to delivery to me." 
    Contact: Aero Dovron, Inc. ... detailed specifications 
    420 US Highway 1, No. 15-U, North Palm Beach, FL  33408-2238 
    (407)625-0500 
    Here is one for sale: Straton D-8 Kit, factory D-cells & tail tube, optional molded canopy.  Very little work done, no time available.  $4000 Firm.  Call Ron at 410-643-0977 (Maryland).     		  
    Straton First Flight     
    Click here to see video (Windows Media Player) 

    Can anyone point 
    me to a photo or 
    digital image? 
    Steve Adkins 
     
     
    Sparrowhawk 

          Alert - Sparrowhawk just flown  (Jan 11, 2002) 
     
    Sparrowhawk Sailplane -a  low priced, carbon, ready-to-fly ultralight glider with high performance by Greg Cole and Doug Taylor with Duane Cole helping. 
     
     
     
    The Wes Whitehurst Carbon Monarch  

    A number of great flying and detailed construction photos.  If the words "Jim Marske" and "Flying Wings" catch your interest ... check this out.
     
    Manque and Cepheus 
    The Nov-Dec 2001 Sailplane Builder featured progress articles on two very exciting sailplanes the Manque and the Cepheus (the latter is self-launching). 
    Members: 
    Left: Alejandro Ramirez-Pineiro  
    Right: Greg Malm
     
     
     
    Steve Arndt finishes Carbon Dragon 
    Arndt's Magic Dragon (Carbon Dragon ) photo captured in flight by fellow hang glider.   Follow this link for some detailed close-up images of construction features of the Magic Dragon. 

    Will this Magic Dragon soon sport and engine?
    Flying Photos of the Magic Dragon  
     Steve Arndt 
    Three very large images ... 
    Low and slow
     
     
    New Carbon Dragon Photos 
    from Daniel Indermühle 
    first flight - December 17, 2000 
     
    Now this is ridge soaring ... Swiss
     
     
     
    Sandlin Bug 

    Mike Sandlin offers simplicity and fun while offering several designs to build.  Follow the link or find more in the April-March 2001 issue of Sailplane Builder. 
     
     
     
    GRAPHLITE CARBON ROD by Jim Marske 

    Article by Jim Marske  
    Through much effort and research, Jim has successfully developed the technology to place carbon rods in the spars of gliders
     
     
     
    Carbon Dragon 
      
    Historic flight by Gary Osoba in his Carbon Dragon from Harris Hill, New York.  This is the prototype Carbon Dragon built by Jim Maupin and a team of volunteers.  Now owned and flown by Gary, President of SHA.
     
     
    The MOBA Story 

    pastarticleprojects.htm 
    Carbon Dragon project 
    Stéphane Abbet  in Geneva Switzerland 
      
     
    Rik Fritz of Flagstaff ...   ...  
    tries on Sa-4 "Sportster" for size 
     
     Photo and article by SHA historian Don Santee
     
     
    "An aerodynamic short-cut" 
    Article 
    By Francisco Leme Galvão  

    Since the early times the man has observed the forces that the moving air can generate ...

    Link to More Member Photos ...
     
      Miscellaneous Member Photos Submitted to Website
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