Soaring Stories

Flight reports, cross-country adventures, and essays by KSA and WSA members.

• Oct 2026 Sandhill Cranes Thermalling at Sunflower Steve Seibel
• Apr 2026 Kicked Out of the Nest: A Gold Badge Flight to Hays and Back Doug Dutton
• Dec 2025 The Big Downwind Dash: Minden, NV to Dodge City on Mountain Wave
• Dec 2025 Ridge Running at Talihina: Like a Roller Coaster Without a Track Doug Dutton
• Jun 2025 Tony Condon at the 39th FAI World Gliding Championships Tony & Leah Condon

Classic Stories

• Aug 2019 Ridge Soaring in Pennsylvania Brian Bird
• Oct 2018 Barnstorming in Atwood Brian Bird
• Jun 2018 Quinter Tony Condon
• Sep 2017 LeMars Tony Condon
• Jun 2017 Destination Crazytown! Jerry Boone
• Jun 2017 Bill Seed (In Memoriam) Steve Leonard
• May 2017 My Checkride Robert Estagin
• May 2017 LaGrange Tony Condon
• Spring 2017 Mineral Wells Keith Smith
• Jan 2017 Flying X-C in January Brian Bird
• Nov 2016 My First Solo Glider Flight Mike Warbington
• Nov 2016 Oklahoma Diamond: Wave to FL200 at Talihina Tony Condon
• Nov 2016 The Flight Home: Uvalde to Ulysses in the Silent 2 Electro Tony Condon
• Feb 2016 Distance in the Winter: Diamond Distance to Mena, AR in February Tony Condon
• Spring 2015 A Tale of Two Deviations Tony Condon
• Aug 2014 Flying the HP-24 Prototype “Tetra-15” Tony Condon
• Apr 2014 Flight to DeQuincy, LA: 525 Miles of Downwind Dash Fun Tony Condon
• Mar 2014 Spring Go South: Wellington to De Queen, AR Tony Condon
• Aug 2013 Region 10 South: Waller TX Jerry Boone
• Aug 2013 The Sparrowhawk and I: 13.5m Super Regionals at Moriarty, 2nd Place Tony Condon
• Jul 2013 Soaring over the Flint Hills: A 300km Triangle in the NG-1 Tony Condon
• Spring 2013 Diamond Distance Kowbell Win: First Kowbell, First Diamond Distance Tony Condon
• Feb 2013 Thermal, Ridge, and Wave: A Talihina Winter Weekend Tony Condon
• Jul 2012 300 km Triangle in the Cherokee II Tony Condon
• Sep 2010 Soaring over Llano Estacado Tony Condon
• May 2010 Silver Altitude and Distance Made Easy! Jerry Boone
• Aug 2002 500 KM Flight In Texas Bob Holliday
• May 2002 “This is Lima Yankee, going through 16” Dennis Brown
• 2001 Southwest Soaring Challenge 2001 Steve Leonard
• 2001 Kowbell, 2001 Steve Leonard
• 2001 Kansas Invades New Mexico Steve Leonard
• ~2001 A First Time Glider Pilot Leon Cziske
• ~2000 A Record Triangle Steve Leonard
• 1999 Labor Day Soaring Festival ’99 Bob Holliday
• 1998 Marfa Wave and Thermal Camp Bob Holliday
• 1986 A Kansas Kowbell Klassic Adventure Ron & Sandi Leonard
• 1971 Forty Years and Counting Bernie Mohr
• Black Hawks And White Gliders Bob Holliday
• Fall Soaring with the Flying Leonards Bob Holliday
• Texas or Bust Bob Holliday
• Another Trip Another Glider Bob Holliday
• Understanding The Sky — A Book Review Bob Holliday
• A B C and Bronze Badges Don Beaton
• How To Fly A 4-Place Cessna Glider Bob Park