Minnesota Soaring SUPER SITE
Fig. 1. -- P, center of pressure; G, center of gravity.
From: SOME AERONAUTICAL EXPERIMENTS.
Mr. WILBUR WRIGHT, Dayton, Ohio.
[Presented to the Western Society of Engineers September 18,1901.]

Sailplane Books

Here's a list of Soaring books, the ones I have read I have graded them:
READ 
AUTHOR
VERSION
GRADE
Go fly a Sailplane 
Morrow
1981
C
Soaring - The sport of flying Sailplanes 
Carter
1973
C
Understanding Gliding 
Piggot
C
Instant wind forecasting 
Watts
1975
B
Gliding Safety 
Piggott
1991
A
Piggott on Gliding 
Piggott
1990
B
Soaring accidents that almost happened 
duPont
1981
B
Soaring guide 
Peter Bowers
1967
C
Weather 
Atkins.Gadd
1987
C
Accident prevention manual 
Knauff/Grove
1992
C
Aviation Weather services 
FAA
A
After Solo 
Knauff
1984
B
Transition to Gliders 
Knauff
1984
B
Cloud Dancing 
Whelan
1995
C
Once upon a Thermal 
Wolters
1991
A
On Silent Wings 
Dwiggins
1970
B+
Theory of flight for glider pilots 
Stafford Allen
1969
D
Wilbur + Orville Wright Pictorial Materials List 
Lib of Congress
1982
C-
Sailplane and Soaring 
Mrazek
1973
B
Gliding 
Piggot
1983
B
Soar America 
Joss
1976
B
Glider, soaring, and skysailing 
Smith
1980
C
The world of silent flight 
Wolters
1979
B+
America's Soaring book 
Flying Magazine
1975
A
Art and Technique of Soaring 
Wolters
1971
A
The story of Gliding 
Ann Welch
1980
A+
Wings like Eagles 
Paul Schweizer
1988
A
With Wings as Eagles 
Halacy
1975
B+
Soaring (Kids intro) 
Phyllis Perry
1997
Kids A
Soaring (Kids intro) 
Dan Halacy
1972
Kids A
Glider Basics 
Tom Knauff
1987
B+
Soaring with the Schweizers 
Bill Schweizer
1991
A
Complete Soaring guide 
Welch
1977
A
Joy of Soaring 
Conway
1989
A
New Soaring Pilot 
Welch
PLANNED 
A Pilot's Choice 
Turnpoints 
Soaring Cross Country 
Byars 
Soaring 
Coombs
Gliders 
Kettelkamp

updated 3/25/98
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