Skyline Soaring Club

Our Men and Women of Letters

Many Club members have published articles about soaring that are technical, philosophical, pedagogical, historical, or just plain story-telling!

Here are links to some of them that were published in aviation magazines, including SOARING* magazine. All are in PDF file format (you must have Adobe Acrobat reader installed to read them). Most articles are provided in two different file sizes: If you have a FAST connection, click on the photo-quality link but if you have a conventional phone modem, you'd probably be better off using the document-quality link.

Author, Article, Issue Citation, Description	Photo Quality (Size)	Document Quality (Size)
Bill Bentley, "How to Catch the Tow Plane", SOARING, September, 2000, page 27 A primer with two "rules" to help master aerotows . .	267 KB	47 KB
Dave Brunner, "Transition to Glass", SOARING, January, 2000 page 28 Dave's description of his transition into a high performance sailplane.	783 KB	159KB
Dave Brunner, "Patience Pays Off", SOARING, August 1999, page	Large	Small
Linn Buell, "18th International Vintage Glider Rally", SOARING, June, 1991 A report from a rally for old gliders in Belgium	466 KB	79 KB
Linn Buell, "The Eastern VSA Regatta", SOARING, September, 1992 Vintage and Classic sailplanes meet in Manning, SC	163 KB	65 KB
Greg Ellis, "Pilot's Choice", SOARING, August, 2000 Greg's account of his first cross country flight for Silver Badge	717 KB	146 KB
Bela Gogos, "Youth Lost in Red Hell" Ivy House Publishing Group, Raleigh, NC, (2003) ISBN 1-571979-372-9 The incredible saga of one of Skyline's Founding Members (and only Emeritus Member), a WW II veteran of the Hungarian Air Force, survivor of the USSR's notorious gulags, and soaring philanthropist.
Jim Kellett,"Things to Come", SOARING, March, 1990 The resident curmudgeon's philosophizing about promoting soaring	376 KB	Small
Jim Kellett, "Let's Take it Nice and Easy", SOARING, August, 1997, page 30 Jim's account of a Diamond goal flight from New Market, VA	515 KB	159 KB
Jim Kellett, "Cirrus, A Classic Case", SOARING, March, 1999 page 34 Case study of a Classic sailplane, the Shempp-Hirth Cirrus	449 KB	109 KB
Fred LaSor, "Tapping Into the Energy of Youth with the Civil Air Patrol" SOARING, November, 2004, page 32 An account of Skyline instructor/towpilot Fred LaSor's participation in a Civil Air Patrol National Glider Academy	648 KB	600 KB
Judah Milgram, "Flight Testing at the 1998 Idafleig Meet", SOARING, April 1999 , page 34 Sailplane testing in Germany	708 KB	163 KB
Joe Parrish, "Rope Breaks: Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle", SOARING, April 1998 page 22 Excellent instructional article comparing "PT3" training to space shuttle launch procedures	430 KB	102 KB
Wallace, Steve "Fathers and Sons and Airplanes", AOPA Pilot, June, 2003, page 107 A moving reminiscence of a father's first flight with his son	767 KB