Team USA Report – WGC Day 3
August 20, 2024 A remarkable day today at WGC2024 - among the more notable in the long history of contests here. With a vast high- pressure system sitting almost on [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 2
August 19, 2024 It was hotter and a bit bluer today, a trend that is predicted to continue in central Texas. (Numbers like 107F are being heard in tomorrow’s [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 1
The first competition day of the 38th World Gliding Championships in Uvalde TX featured genuine 'Uvalde weather'. For the uninitiated, this means conditions that are borderline miserable on the [...]
WGC Uvalde – WATCH LIVE NOW
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) in Uvalde, Texas starts Sunday, August 18th, and you can catch all of the action in several places. It is quite an honor to [...]
38th FAI World Gliding Championships – Uvalde Texas
Uvalde, Texas August 14 – 31, 2024 #USTeamUvalde2024 The competition will be heating up literally and figuratively this month in Uvalde, Texas as the United [...]
36th World Gliding Championships – Cancelled
Stendal, Germany July 12 - August 1, 2021 MEET THE TEAM CONTEST NEWS VIEW ALL NEWS Contest Website [...]
Tom Jim Johnston
On Monday, March 23, 2020, Tom Jim Johnston passed away at the age of 86 in New Braunfels, Texas where he has resided since 2011. Tom was born on March [...]
Jim Hard: A Life in the Sky
Jim Hard was as integral to the Minnesota Soaring Club and Red Wing Soaring Association as lift is to glider flight. He passed away on February 9, 2019. As a [...]
Allen Lee Leffler
Allen Lee Leffler, 88 years old, of Pozo, California passed away on March 5th, 2019 in San Luis Obispo, California. Al was born in Millbank, South Dakota to Theodore Lee [...]
Bif Huss (and teammate Jim Lee) “Around the course on a Tough Day 5”
"An amazing soaring day yesterday.Jim and I started together and had a very long glide under fairly overcast skies to clouds well to our south. Luckily, we had plenty of [...]