Huntsville Soaring Club

If flying were the language of man, soaring would be its poetry.
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Join North Alabama's premier soaring club and learn the art of flying sailplanes. Browse our site to learn more about the fascinating sport of soaring, then contact us to schedule your introductory flight.

Soaring is...an aerial ballet...a magic carpet ride... Some have called it the sport of kings.

If you know the sky and your craft as soaring pilots do, soaring is beautiful...magical...spectacular...and thrilling.

The best way to find out what soaring is all about is to experience it yourself!

Click Here to Come Soar with us!

The pictures to the upper right are hosted in Huntsville Soaring's Picasa account. Any member can add their favorite picture to the slideshow.

A larger version of the Slideshow can also be viewed.

Click on the Slideshow above to Display Controls

Click on the image to the left to view a well-done YouTube video of soaring over the Alps.

Watch these other short videos and you'll get a glimmer of how exciting soaring can be.

Extreme Soaring - High, low, fast, and edgy
Smokin' Gliders - UK contest finishes
Ridge Soaring - A couple of HSC members did this for 760 miles last April
Rock Polishing - with the Condor Soaring Simulator
Vol a Voile - Nice collection of French soaring videos

RecentClubNews -- Click here for all the news.

2009 October ... Jean-Jacques Wins 2007 GTA A Class Contest! JJ has continued his climb up the racing ladder and this year beat the best and became victorious in the GTA A class competition. The GTA contest runs from mid-March through mid-September with races held on weekends at gliderports and airports throughout the three-state region. At the end of the series, each pilot in the A (veterans) and B (less experienced) classes is ranked according to the sum of his six highest daily scores. Rand Baldwin, NN, another HSC pilot who flew flew for a second place finish in the A class as well.

The Huntsville Soaring Club's new Wiki-based site! Many of you are probably familiar with Wikipedia which is probably the best known Wiki site with its content being provided and updated by anyone in the world wishing to do so. If you are new to the site, click here to find out more about Wiki's and what it means for this site.

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Last Modified 2009-10-24