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Welcome to the Gliding WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Gliding.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
- Goals
- Expand Wikipedia coverage of gliders and motorgliders, gliding and soaring, gliding competitions, and unpowered flight in general, and to improve Wikipedia by bringing the unique worldview of the gliding community to other subject areas as well.
- Scope
- Articles on aviation, aerodynamics, airmanship, aviation history etc.
- Articles on aircraft, especially gliders, motor gliders, flight instruments, and aircraft systems,
- Subjects relating to the function and operation and nature of gliders.
- Articles on airports, especially gliderports
- Articles on soaring birds
- Articles on meteorology, especially mesometerology and soaring weather phenomenon.
- Articles on air sports, especially gliding and gliding competitions
- Articles on geography, especially pertaining to soaring sites, and geographic features that support cross-country soaring.
- Biographical articles pertaining to aviation pioneers related to gliding, and notable glider pilots.
Guidelines
editOpen tasks
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- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (26,709) • ...to coverage and accuracy (24,533) • ...to structure (13,420) • ...to grammar (20,461) • ...to supporting materials (19,721)
- Expansion needed
- List of glider pilots (see red-links at Soaring Hall of Fame)
- Citations needed
- Add refs and scanned images from FAA Glider Handbook
Articles
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Featured content
editFeatured articles
editDid you know?
edit- Peter Masak — 16 January 2007
- Yaw string — 29 January 2007
- Ingo Renner — 26 January 2008
- PZL Bielsko SZD-59 — 9 August 2008
- Carden-Baynes Auxiliary - 19 December 2009
Candidates
editNew articles
editPlease feel free to list your new Gliding-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.
- No. 621 Volunteer Gliding Squadron - 21 August 2019
- AB Flygindustri Fi-1 3 August 2019
- Angelika Machinek - 27 June 2019
- AMA motor-glider - 22 May 2018
- Schempp-Hirth Ventus-3 - 2 August 2016
- Akaflieg Darmstadt Württemberg - 4 April 2014
- Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-6 Nixope - 1 January 2014
- Abate GP.1 - 13 November 2013
- Akaflieg Stuttgart FS-31 - 22 November 2012
- Akaflieg Stuttgart FS-28 Avispa - 4 November 2012
- Aérostructure Lutin 80 - 28 October 2012
- Antonov A-11 - 3 October 2012
- Aeronatica Lombarda AL-3 -15 September 2013
- Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-13 Arcus - 2 August 2012
- Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-8 - 24 July 2012
- Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-7 Nimbus - 18 July 2012
- George Lee - 15 June 2012
- Akaflieg Hannover Greif - 5 June 2012
- Antonov A-9 - 20 April 2012
- Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-12 - 20 February 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-39 - 18 February 2012
- Akaflieg Braunschweig SB-11 - 3 February 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-41 - 1 February 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-40 - 31 January 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-36 Circe - 28 January 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-34 - 27 January 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-28 Windspiel - 22 January 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-17 Darmstadt - 19 January 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-9 Konsul - 17 January 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-7 Margarete - 16 January 2012
- Akaflieg Darmstadt D-6 Geheimrat - 15 January 2012
- Addyman Zephyr - 5 July 2011
- Addyman STG - 4 July 2011
- Abbott-Baynes Scud 2 - 30 June 2011
- Abbott Farnham sailplane - 7 June 2011
- Schempp-Hirth Quintus - 11 May 2011
- Neiva BN-1 - 23 April 2011
- Abbott-Baynes Scud 1 - 18 June 2011
- Airdisco Phi-Phi 24 May 2011
- Frank Irving - 17 January 2011
- Cil Reghin Albatros - 15 January 2011
- LIBIS-17 - 14 January 2011
- Scheibe SF-27 - 13 January 2011
- Bölkow Phoebus - 13 January 2011
- Siren Edelweiss - 9 December 2010
- Alpha Marco J-5 - 1 November 2010
- Alpaero Exel - 24 October 2010
- Alpaero Exel - 24 October 2010
- Alpaero Choucas - 23 October 2010
- Polyt V - 14 August 2010
- Buxton Hjordis - 3 February 2010
- Slingsby Skylark 4 - 30 January 2010
- Slingsby Petrel - 30 January 2010
- Slingsby Skylark 3 - 26 January 2010
- Slingsby Falcon 4 -25 January 2010
- Slingsby Swallow - 24 January 2010
- General Aircraft GAL.55 - 22 January 2010
- Slingsby Kite 2 - 22 January 2010
- Slingsby Prefect - 21 January 2010
- Slingsby Dart - 16 January 2010
- Slingsby Sky - 5 January 2010
- I.Ae. 34 - 2 January 2010
- Carden-Baynes Auxiliary - 13 December 2009
- Anne Burns - 8 October 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-40 - 6 September 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-49 - 6 September 2009
- Scheibe Bergfalke - 5 September 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-48 - 5 September 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-41 - 1 September 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-38 - 29 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-35 - 28 August 2009
- Elliotts of Newbury - 27 August 2009
- EoN Olympia - 27 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-28 - 27 August 2009
- Slingsby T.25 Gull 4 - 22 August 2009
- Slingsby T.20 - 21 August 2009
- Slingsby T.9 King Kite - 20 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-26 - 18 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-27 - 18 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-24 - 17 August 2009
- Kocjan Bᾳk - 14 August 2009
- Schempp-Hirth SHK - 11 August 2009
- Standard Austria - 8 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-22 - 7 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-19 - 6 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-20x - 6 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-17x - 5 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-18 - 5 August 2009
- Torva 15 - 4 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-15 - 2 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-16 - 2 August 2009
- IS-B Komar - 1 August 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-14 - 31 July 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-7 - 30 July 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-10 - 30 July 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-11 - 30 July 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-12 - 30 July 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-13 - 30 July 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-6x - 28 July 2009
- PZL Bielsko SZD-8 - 28 July 2009
- St Louis CG-5 - 28 July 2009
- Slingsby T.12 Kirby Gull 1 - 23 July 2009
- Akaflieg Stuttgart FS-25 - 18 July 2009
- Nicholas Goodhart 16 December 2008
- PZL Bielsko SZD-59 3 August 2008
- Sándor Katona - 1 July 2008 (stub)
- Edward Makula - 1 July 2008 (stub)
- de Havilland DH.52 - 21 May 2009
- Cornelius XFG-1 - 14 May 2009
- Schleicher ASK 23 - 6 March 2008 (stub)
- Schleicher ASW 17 - 6 March 2008 (stub)
- Schleicher ASK 18 - 29 February 2008 (stub)
- Cotswold Gliding Club - 13 February 2008 (B class)
- Wilhelm Düerkop - 9 February 2008
- Janusz Centka - 2 February 2008 (stub)
- Ingo Renner- 21 January 2008
- Markus Feyerabend - 14 January 2008
- Klaus Ohlmann - 11 January 2008 (stub)
- Hans-Werner Grosse - 11 January 2008 (re-created stub)
- Jerzy Makula - 9 January 2008
- Colditz Cock - 15 October 2007
- Philip Wills - 13 March 2007
- Lorne Welch - 12 March 2007
- Ann Welch - 22 February 2007
Collaboration and review
editTemplates
edit- {{WPAVIATION}} project banner for article talk pages, with the parameter |Gliding-project=yes
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editParentage
editThe parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.
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