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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 meterology, 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.
Open tasks
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- Attention needed
- ...to referencing and citation (20,111) • ...to coverage and accuracy (19,676) • ...to structure (18,681) • ...to grammar (18,587) • ...to supporting materials (18,679)
- 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
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Articles
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Featured content
Featured articles
Did you know?
- 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
New articles
Please 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.
- George Lee - 15 June 2012
- Schempp-Hirth Quintus - 11 May 2011
- Neiva BN-1 - 23 April 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
- 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
Templates
- {{WPAVIATION}} project banner for article talk pages, with the parameter |Gliding-project=yes
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Outreach/User WPAVIATION Gliding WikiProject}} user box for member user pages
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Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.
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