5:30AM will come pretty early for me, I normally like to get up about 8, but for a trip to the promised land of slope flying I guess I’ll make the sacrifice. Mirko, Dave and I making the trip in Mirko’s van, packed with about 35 or 40 slope sailplanes! Should be a good time. [...]

I added a couple of new stories to slopeflyer.com recently.
Allan sent in a nice story and some pix about a NoCal slope soaring site about 60 miles North of San Fran, near the Russian River outlet.
I posted a bit about the first flight of my Airtech Fitness.
Finally I added some pix of Mirko’s new Wizard [...]

Mirko and I got out and flew some today. We hit Atwater beach about 2PM and were met with a light northeast wind but that was OK. I had the Weasel and the Alula. Both nice light air planes. Plus, the wind-chill was almost nonexistant.
I flew the Weasel first and there was enough wind, probably [...]

What a cool device for your RC sailplane! It’s a low-voltage indicator and a lost model locator all in one. If you fly where the trees live this will be a life saver!
SkyKing RC Products Lost Model Locator

See the story at: Harris Nelson Spyder

Check out my web site about radio control slope soaring, slopeflyer.com. I am using a nifty content management system to run slopeflyer.com called Article Manager. Nice control, static pages, easy to edit templates, really neat. Check it at interactivetools.com

The dates for the 2005 edition of the MWSC are June 9th thru 12th, 2005.
See more at Midwest Slope Challenge.