Team USA Report – WGC Day 1
Greetings from Tábor, Czechia, where the US Team is attending the 39th World Gliding Championship. A total of 115 pilots are competing in three classes here: Club, Standard and 15-Meter. [...]
Fatal British Midair
by Air Accidents Investigation Branch The AAIB is the British equivalent of the U.S.’s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), tasked with investigating British glider accidents to determine their circumstances and [...]
Bremerton Youth Education Bears Fruit
Club Corner June 2025 By Mike Friend Youth Gather to Build Motorglider Eight or nine years ago, your author and Joel Mapes of Experimental Aviation Association [...]
Soaring into History: The Tellmann Brothers’ Record-Breaking Flights
By Eric Tellmann On April 23, 2025, the skies over Florida witnessed something truly special. Brothers Steven and Jaxon Tellmann launched from Tampa Bay Soaring Society (TBSS) with a mission [...]
Regional Report: Region 5
By Region 5 Director Hartley Falbaum Although spring weather brought a slow start to the season, there is still much to celebrate throughout Region 5. Sarah is winding up [...]
Reverse Sierra Waves
By Kempton Izuno Reverse Sierra Wave (rSw) occurs when winds blow from the northeast over California, setting up standing atmospheric waves on the western slopes of the Sierra [...]
Are You Really Ready for Your First Flight of the Year?
By Rich Carlson, Chairman of the Soaring Safety Foundation Once again Spring has arrived and thoughts of long soaring flights fill your head as you open the trailer and pull [...]
SSA FAST Program
In our quest in continuously looking at ways to help you, our members, we decided to pause the FAST program. We had received numerous complaints about the cost of the [...]
SSA Racing Pilot Poll is open.
US Racing Pilots. The annual pilot poll is now available at the link below. If you have flown in a sanctioned contest in the past three years we strongly encourage [...]
2024 SSA Contest Rules Committee Nominations
If you are a current soaring contest pilot and would consider standing for election to the SSA Contest Rules Committee, contact your regional director to submit a nomination by October [...]