First Official Practice Day
"All racing tasks (yes even Club Class!!!) of 230-300 km" per Tim McAllister All three classes about to go racing on official practice day 1. Different tasks but in [...]
SSA Presence in Oshkosh with P-51 chances
SSA representatives are at the EAA AirVenture event this week to promote soaring and are offering raffle chances for the Stallion-51 Orientation flight to support the US Teams. Ken and [...]
Kids start gliding at an early age
It's not odd for young children to start soaring at age 10 in Lithuania Phil Gaisford and crew member Jose Otero are seen checking the gliders we rented to [...]
Bob Fletcher & Crew Getting Ready for Parade
Bob Fletcher is getting his crew and plane ready for the parade! Bob is happy to fit crew member Gvidas Kairys for his parade shirt. Welcome aboard Gvidas! Bob Fletcher [...]
Crew Spotlight: Gvidas Kairys
Im Gvidas Kairys also known as Stig by americans. Im a high school student of Stasio Šalkauskio gymnasium .I started gliding about 2 years ago when I was 16 and [...]
Crew Spotlight: Jose Ignacio Otero
Jose Ignacio Otero from Argentina is crew chief for PG in Pociunal. How did Jose get involved with the US Soaring Team, I asked Phil Gaisford? "We met Jose [...]
Lithuania: “here we come: Team USA
Lithuania-"here we come" Team USA Club Class Ace, Tim McAllister and his Club Class teammate, Mike Westbrook have spent the last weekend practicing and honing their team mojo for the [...]
Larry Timpson:Co-Pilot with Mike Robison
Larry soloed a Super Cub in '63, seaplanes in '64, and a Bell47G5 helicopter in '67. He even flew a classic Schweizer 2-22, which only had 1:10 hours total time [...]
The Journey to Pociunai, Lithuania
Bob Fletcher, representing us in the Standard Class leaves in just over a week on the redeye to Frankfurt with his crew person, John Good. They are renting a diesel [...]
PG’s Journey to Lithuania
Phil Gaisford will be competing in his own Discus 2. PG, the glider, left the US from Baltimore on 6/9 for Bremerhaven, Germany. Alfred and Agnes Spindelberger, who are wonderful [...]