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      <title>Root End of the Wings and Surfaces</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 22:22:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[One neat thing about sailplanes is that they are designed to disassemble (and assemble) relatively easily for transport by road and retrieval from land out sights. Here is C-FVKA in its trailer - view from the rear end.]]></description>
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      <title>Pulling the Trailer on trips is not difficult</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 22:18:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Even the 1.8 litre Matrix with standard transmission will pull the trailer and glider cross country. Here the two are on I-95 near Mount Katahdin in Maine.]]></description>
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      <title>VKA, Larry, Rob and Richard</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 21:48:52 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This shows VKA in its fuselage stand. This was designed to produce equal pressure around the body using straps for support. The metal arm sticking up is to attach to a overhead rail in the trail for loading and securing upright.  - Taken at Sugarbush VT - Larry Bogan, Rob Buck, and Richard Sawyer in the picture.]]></description>
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      <title>Instrument Panel</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:34:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Sailplane have simple instruments. Three basic ones here are the  'mechanical' Variometer, Airspeed, and Altimeter plus a Cambridge audio electric variometer.<br />
  This photo was taken to show the height achieved on this flight - I was in wave flying near Sugarbush Vermont  at 15,800 feet.]]></description>
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      <title>Self-portrait to show Cockpit interior</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:30:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[I use a headset with my Icom radio. There is a Push-to-talk button on the stick. I have a parachute and a five point harness.]]></description>
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      <title>C-FVKA at Debert with G-GRSN a Lak 12</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:25:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is the field from which C-FVKA flies. Debert in Nova Scotia. The tow plane in the background is an L-19 owned by the Air Cadets. The club, ACES, uses auto to launch its gliders in most cases. When a tow plane is available we do aero-tow.]]></description>
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      <title>Taping up C-FVKA for a flight at Sugarbush</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:19:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[An image showing C-FVKA on the ground getting ready for a flight. The taping of the joints between the wings and the fuselage cuts down on noise and airflow that spoils the wing's lift a bit.  This is in Vermont again, where more pictures were taken than in my home field in Nova Scotia.]]></description>
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      <title>Landing at Sugarbush, Vermont</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:16:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is another image taken by a friend. He was on the ground and I was landing after a flight. This  gives a different view of the Schleicher Ka6e.]]></description>
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      <title>C-FVKA at 14000 ft over Vermont</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite pictures of my sailplane taken by a friend flying beside me in wave lift over the Sugarbush area of Vermont.  We are above cloud at about 14,000 ft. That flight I climbed to over 16,000 ft before having to descend as the hole in the cloud was starting to close.]]></description>
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      <title>Woody  Pond Colony - Harris Neck NWR</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:35:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Both Great Egrets and Wood Storks nest on the top of the trees in this lake.]]></description>
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