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Wow. Nice! Looks like a shot from a Calendar or something. Sweet ride!

It is looking excellent. Outstanding! Now that you got the hang of it, I'd like to get in line if you're thinking of tackling another one (for sale)... :tank::beer::tank:

5,700 feet above sea level is some right fine altitude. I'm no engineer but you figure that has GOT to play into the performance. I mean the athletes in Mexico City for those Olympics (5,000 foot plus, right?), they took two weeks of acclimation for the Gamers there to get up to speed (so to...

"Happy" is good to hear. Maybe it's not common (haven't tallied all the responses on this thread). But it is good to hear.

A pretty loose formula there, plowboy, but you're half-kidding anyway, right?! You're sayin any petroleum product and hope for the best?

You are right, of course, VertigoPilot. "Not much" is a better choice of words. Thanks for the correction! An amazing story worth the read is the British night landing (gliders: Wacos? I don't know), the night/morning of D-Day (WWII) to take the bridges that might have allowed German armor to...

My Father was Forward Observer for a battery of 8" Howitzers during WWII: - There was as pilot assigned to the battery (dedicated? or shared by other batteries I don't know). He flew a Piper Cub (I think that was the airframe, seating was fore-and-aft, pilot and the FO seated directly behind)...

Bless the memory of your Father, frank8003. Night flying in a glider? NO lift at night (no solar, no thermals). "Brass Ones" is right.

Don't feel bad, they were built for work! Better working than just sitting doing nothing somewhere, turning into rust. Now THAT would be sad.

If you don't mind going to the trouble, you could start an event thread about it here on SS. People would likely appreciate that, and also show up! Graves Mountian, the Georgia Rally. There's more than a few threads like that.

- I know Elmira, NY, - It's the Soaring Capital of the World (I got half-way to a Glider Pilot license -during college- before I ran out of time-and-money) American LaFrance. Very cool!

That's a fine beauty, nice find! Any plans to restore/ paint it at all, or are you just going to work it till it drops?!

Don't know about Loudon County, but there's a pow-wow/ hootenanny off 15/29 down toward Charlottesville every year (you know discounting the Plague Year and all). Features good chow, a trail run, and everything. Has its own thread on here, something Mountain is the place, but my feeble plain...

Robo, got any idea: - is that company any relation to American LaFrance and the fire response engines?

Good eye. You saved it from the Fiery Furnace, nice work! Everybody likes a story with a happy ending. Excellent!!

Very sweet! What was the story on that boom, a "barn-find"? Or maybe something being used?

DOH: the explanation AND pic were both from you. Thanks, StrykerPerry!

Got the picture now (thanks to you, and literally, StrykerPerry): - Good intentions, but a concept not prone to age real well....

Congratulations! What's the "piece"? Pic?

What's that about, some safety feaure or something? Or just plain-and-simple bad idea?