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Our most recent 2022 Supporters/Subscribers

Thu, Mar 31 2022, 12:27:15 pm MDT

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David "Dave" Proctor|James Kolynich|Knut Ryerson|Mitchell "Mitch" Shipley|supporters

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Support Foster Kids in Big Spring, Texas

Fri, Jul 9 2021, 4:01:05 pm MDT

Even if we can't go there this year

Belinda Boulter|charity|Dave Proctor

Dave Proctor, Belinda, and I are supporting the foster kids in Big Spring, Texas again this year, remembering how much the town has helped hang glider pilots out in the past (and we hope to get back there soon).

We have already given over $3,000 this month and if you'd like to help out you can make a donation to the Howard County Child Welfare Board. Send it to Attn: Becky Moughan. The address is PO Box 3101, Big Spring TX 79721. Put in a little note to tell Becky where it's coming from (a hang glider pilot). They will be very very grateful as you can imagine.

You can also make a donation here: http://www.tccwb.org/boards/local-boards/howard/

Normally we would route the donations through the Cloudbase Foundation ( https://secure.givelively.org/donate/cloudbase-foundation-inc/assist-big-spring-texas-foster-kids-2020), but this year we decided to just do it directly. This perhaps reduces our contribution as the Foundation has very generously added $1,000 to our donations if we can match it (which we always do).

We got a report back on Friday that our donations are already helping children. To keep his two granddaughters out of foster care a grandfather is going to adopt them. But, he had to make his house acceptable for children, which meant that he needed an air conditioner. Becky purchased the air conditioner and gave the kids gift cards so that they could purchase some clothes.

2014 East Coast Championship

Day 7 and final results

Sat, Jun 7 2014, 9:27:48 pm EDT

Aeros Combat|Aeros Combat GT 15|Aeros Combat L|Aeros Discus|Airwave Vision Pulse|Bob Filipchuk|Brian Boudreau|Bruce Barmakian|Charles Allen|Cory Barnwell|Dana Harris|Dan Lukaszewicz|Dave Proctor|Davis Straub|East Coast Championships 2014|Felix Cantesanu|Greg Dinauer|Greg Sessa|Highland Aerosports Flight Park|Hugh Mcelrath|Icaro Laminar Z8|J.D. Guillemette|Jim Messina|Joe Schmucker|John Claytor|John Dullahan|John Waters|Knut Ryerson|Michelle Haag|Moyes Litespeed|Moyes Litespeed S|Moyes Litesport 4|Richard Elder|Richard Milla|Soraya Rios|Tom McGowan|Tom Mcgowan|Wills Wing|Wills Wing Sport 2|Wills Wing T2C|Wills Wing Talon|Wills Wing U2

http://soaringspot.com/ecc2014/

Task 7:

1. Greg Dinauer Aeros Combat 12.7 02:26:13 1000
2. Davis Straub Wills Wing T2C 144 02:26:22 994.02
3. Charles Allen Icaro Laminar Z8 12.8 02:40:06 837.19
4. Tom Mcgowan Moyes Litespeed 03:34:53 546.85

Final Totals:

1. Bruce Barmakian Wills Wing T2C 136 4913.06
2. Greg Dinauer Aeros Combat 12.7 4560.29
3. Davis Straub Wills Wing T2C 144 3821.55
4. Jd Guillemette Moyes Litespeed S4 3037.99
5. John Waters Aeros Combat L 15 3026.09
6. Jim Messina Moyes Litespeed S 4.5 2953.45
7. Charles Allen Icaro Laminar Z8 12.8 2941.23
8. Bob Filipchuk Aeros Combat GT 15 2397.18
9. Dave Proctor Wills Wing T2C 154 1449.28
10. Tom Mcgowan Moyes Litespeed 967.38
11. John Claytor Wills Wing Talon 160 276.18

Task 7 Sport:

1. Hugh Mcelrath Wills Wing Sport 2 01:39:20 1060
2. Brian Boudreau Wills Wing Sport 2 155 01:43:18 980.21
3. Dana Harris Wills Wing Sport 2 155 02:17:47 660.81
4. Cory Barnwell Airwave Vision Pulse 02:21:01 640.73
5. Soraya Rios Wills Wing Sport 2 135 02:29:32 592.70
6. Richard Elder Wills Wing Sport 2 03:00:45 468.69

Final Sport:

1. Felix Cantesanu Aeros Discus 3798.89
2. Hugh Mcelrath Wills Wing Sport 2 3519.46
3. Cory Barnwell Airwave Vision Pulse 3258.15
4. Brian Boudreau Wills Wing Sport 2 155 3044.54
5. Dana Harris Wills Wing Sport 2 155 2810.15
6. Richard Milla Wills Wing Sport 2 2804.88
7. Knut Ryerson Wills Wing Sport 2 2440.09
8. Soraya Rios Wills Wing Sport 2 135 2417.55
9. Richard Elder Wills Wing Sport 2 2203.56
10. Greg Sessa Wills Wing U2 1982.97
11. Michelle Haag Wills Wing Sport 2 135 1156.05
12. John Dullahan Moyes Litesport 4 649.96
13. Dan Lukaszewicz Wills Wing Sport 2 482.98
14. Joe Schmucker Wills Wing Sport 2 175 462.76

Over the Top

Wed, Jul 23 2003, 8:00:06 pm GMT

Chad Elchin|Dave Proctor|Highland Aerosports Flight Park

Adam at Highland Aerosports «hanglide» writes:

Dave Proctor generously donated his time and skill to create this memorial sculpture to Chad Elchin whom we lost this past April. Dave's artwork will stay at the Highland Aerosports flight park in Ridgely, MD. The Highland Crew & the Elchin family would like to thank Dave for his beautiful embodiment of the spirit and joy of what Chad loved best. Taking it over the top.

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Flying the Airborne Climax C2 14

Wed, Nov 20 2002, 7:00:01 pm GMT

A.I.R. ATOS C|Airborne Climax|Conrad Loten|David "Dave" Proctor|Ghostbuster|Rick "Ricky" Duncan|Steve Moyes

Tony Deleo <Writetonyd@aol.com> writes:

I’ve noticed your flying a flex wing. Are you considering going to same and if so what are the reasons?

I perhaps forgot to mention that my AIR ATOS-C is on the boat coming from Los Angeles. At the time I left the states I hadn’t contemplated flying at Gulgong because when I sent off my ATOS I hadn’t heard about this meet.

I still wasn’t thinking of coming to this meet, but Ricky Duncan and Rob Hibbard at Airborne offered to fix me up with a Sting, a Fun, or a Climax. At first I thought the meet was on the east coast, and a Sting seemed like the appropriate glider. Then I realized that it was out here west of the Blue Mountains, and the Climax seemed the better choice, in spite of my lack of recent experience on a topless flex wing. BTW, a pilot flying a Sting yesterday did much better than I and almost made goal on the 138 km task with four turnpoints.

I was nervous about flying the Climax, but I’m now very happy that I did. It is a fun glider to fly and I think that I was beginning to get the hang of it by the end of the meet.

Proctor, Dave <dproctor@mc.com> writes:

You might want to try a trick I learned while flying my old Formula which had a reputation for yawing all over the place when flown fast. When you want to go fast don't just pull the bar back but also push down. Lock your elbows into your sides and concentrate on keeping your arms locked in position. This accomplishes two things. It locks your body in position to stop swinging PIOs, and with your mass locked tightly to the glider it increases the yaw moment, helping to dampen out yaw.

Today it went much better with the PIO and the yaws. I’m finally getting use to the glider and figuring out how to counteract my own inducement to yawing.

It was great towing with the bar stuffed, which I had to do to keep the glider down with the trike. Without the VG full on this takes a bit more muscle, but I felt fine about it. I really like the idea of balling up with my knees out and getting the weight under the CG.

Overall I felt great about flying the Climax. Except for some few times in turbulence I felt very comfortable in the glider. While in the ATOS without the tail my brain would continually go through the tucking scenario every time I hit turbulence. That tape didn’t play while I was flying the Climax. This, of course, is a great relief. It doesn’t mean that the Climax can’t tuck, it just means that the way it feels to me doesn’t trigger my subconscious bad response. It feels solid.

The tailless ATOS (and the tailless Ghostbuster that I flew the other day) seem to be skittery. Whatever that motion is it is the one that triggers the tuck tape. I’m hoping that when I get the tail on the ATOS in Australia, the tuck tape will stay on the shelf. I don’t know for sure.

I was so happy to find out that I wasn’t scared of hang gliding, just scared of flying the tailless ATOS. It was a great relief to find out that I wasn’t permanently ruined. Or that I didn’t have to suffer for a few years until I could enjoy hang gliding again. If I find that I can’t enjoy flying a rigid wing even with a tail because the tuck tape gets triggered by the feel of the glider, then, I can just fly a flex wing and be happy again.

Thanks to Ricky and Rob for letting me fly their baby. The Climaxes have definitely improved over their short life time and it is great to see another great topless flex wing from an Australian manufacturer.

Towing the Climax on Monday

How does the Climax compare with the Litespeed? I really have no personal experience that would let me make anything near a good judgment call. I do know from watching Rohan that the Climaxes have improved a lot. Obviously the Climax pilots are doing well in this meet.

One thing that distinguishes flex wings from rigid wings, is that the flex wings can be tuned (and detuned) in so many different ways. This is both a positive and a negative. If something is wrong, it is nice to be able to fix it in the field quickly. But then the chances of something being wrong are much higher than with a rigid wing, because there is so much flexibility built into the design of a flex wing.

With a rigid wing glider, the factory builds it to a specification, and as long as it stays within the spec, you basically aren’t supposed to do anything to it. It is very difficult to adjust the twist, and the sweep has a very narrow range. You can’t recamber the battens, or without difficulty move one tip up and the other down.

I found that it was easier to set up the ATOS than the Climax, not that it was particularly hard to set up the Climax. It just took more time as I had to put in all the battens. The dive sticks were very easy to put in place and fold up in the Climax. The Mylar sail was difficult to roll compared to a rigid wing, which doesn’t have Mylar and whose sail is very easy to deal with. Airborne has a Dacron version now.

With a flex wing you feel like you are part of a family as support is usually nearby. With a rigid, you are part of a minority and you had better be prepared to fix it on your own.

I didn’t feel that there was any difference in the responsiveness of the Climax compared to the ATOS. They both took a while to initiate turns. It was a little more work with the Climax, as with any flex wing, because you had to move your body, not just the control frame. This meant more work for my shoulders. I started taking Ibuprofen again.

I loved landing the Climax. The frame is so big, and the glider is so gentle with the VG off. It feels like an intermediate glider.

After a while I learned to enjoy thermaling the Climax. I was just getting use to it. With the VG all the way off, it is easy to turn. Once I got the right hand turn fixed, I didn’t have to high side it.

The VG is very easy to pull on as it has a long throw. I was a bit nervous flying with full VG because when I hit a thermal I would get tossed about. You want to get the VG off right away so that you can maneuver in the thermals.

I remembered why we have speed bars: in order to allow you to push against the bar to push your weight over to one side. I had forgotten about this aspect of speed bars flying the ATOS.

On the last day Steve Moyes thought I might want to fly the Litesport, and I told him yes that I would, but that I felt I should continue flying the Climax through the meet as Airborne had been so generous with their offer to let me fly the Climax. Hopefully Steve will give me another chance later to fly the Litesport before the Australian Open (maybe at Stanwell) and I will have an opportunity to write about that experience.

I have written some about the Litesport before, but haven’t flown it enough to really get to know it. I did enjoy flying Conrad’s Moyes Sonic at the beach (especially without the harness).

Would I fly a flex wing glider rather than a rigid wing in the upcoming competitions? Well, I’m going to give my ATOS a go first and see how it feels. If the inner voices are calmed down by its behavior, then that’s my preferred option. But life is strange, so who knows what will happen.

Thanks again to Ricky for getting me a wonderful glider to fly.

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