Cross-Country Soaring - Free Download
Author:  Helmut Reichmann
Copyright: 1978
Original Edition?
165 Pages

Free download link below - Or buy a printed and bound version

Overview
This free download is probably the first edition of this wonderful book.  It is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in cross-country soaring.

Helmut Reichmann was a very competitive sailplane racer and a strong mathematician.  This book explains the complicated speed-to-fly theories and backs them with many equations that can be used to model cross-country soaring flight.  I especially like the sections on how and where thermals form, competition tactics, and speed-to-fly theory.

Favorite Quote - From Foreword
"Surely, man's age-old dream of flying has found its purest and most beautiful expression in soaring.  Nature opens up to the soaring pilot a world that would have been thought unreachable only a few years ago - a world of mighty forces, gentle or wild, majestic and mysterious.  The pilot enters this realm, flies in it, makes use of its dynamics, and tries to explore and fathom its mysteries.  The burden of everyday life is left on the ground and becomes inconsequential compared to the freedom that the wings of a sailplane can provide."

Download Links
Source Location: https://www.sailplaneandgliding.co.uk/archive-item/cross-country-soaring 

Also Available here: https://cumulus-soaring.com/files/Cross-Country-Soaring.pdf 

I Can Print This For You
Let me know if you want a printed and bound version of this free downloads. Sometimes it is nice to have a printed version in hand - rather than a digital version to read only at your computer. I can print it on 8.5 x 11" paper, double-sided, using my color laser printer, and bind it with clear plastic covers and a "VeloBind" binder for $35. The finished product looks great. 

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