The H. Marshall Claybourn Memorial Trophy is awarded to the Schweizer 1-26 pilot who completes the longest straight-out flight of the year. There were twenty Sweepstakes flights of over one hundred miles in 2024, but only five of those were straight outs. You can now add 2024 to Jim Neff’s tally of Claybourn wins.  His […]

The 2025 1-26 Championships (not “Nationals”) will be hosted by the Merlin Soaring Club at the Merlin Aerodrome southwest of Richmond, VA. http://www.merlinaero.org/1-26-championships.html https://www.airnav.com/airport/2VA3 Merlin Aerodrome, VA May 7-14 May 5-6 Practice Days Yes, we realize this spans the Mother’s Day weekend, but it was unavoidable when the proposed dates were changed from June to […]

(full Sweepstakes standings and flights) With the same number of pilots (16) as in 2023 we had more flights in 2024 (80) than we had in 2023. The top two classes, Diamond and Gold, showed the usual suspects flying their top flights. The Bronze class showed two new pilots to the Sweeps this year which […]

We are happy to announce the site of the 2024 1-26 Championships will be in Hamilton, Texas – July 31 – August 8th.   These dates were selected to avoid a conflict with Oshkosh before the contest and the Worlds in Uvalde starting 8/9.  Spring dates were looked at, but after three years of Spring washouts […]

Windy City 1-26 Regatta 2024 Windy City Soaring Association, Hinckley, IL, 27.05.2024 – 31.05.2024 Overall results after Day 3 # CN Pilot Total 1. 401 Jimbob Slocum 2797 2. 687 Team: Hayter & Hayter 2727 3. 286 Steve Snyder 2585 4. 057 Cal Tax 2212 5. 242 Team: Lohre & Statkus 1865 6. 263 Jeff […]