Sailplane Expo Main Page

The Sailplane Expo, held each Australia Day long weekend in Armidale NSW, commenced in 1980 and has become embedded in the thermal fliers' annual program. It is now the second biggest thermal flying event in Australia attracting more than 60 entrants in 2008.

This page has been created to link you to entry forms, the rules and the results from recent years:

Click here to access the results from 2006
Open Thermal Glider with RES
7-cell Electric Glider
F5J Electric Glider

Click here to access the results from 2007
Open Thermal Glider with RES
7-cell Electric Glider
F5J Electric Glider

Click here to access the 2008 Brochure and Entry Form - this tells you all about the event, the program and the varied activities - includes links to the Electric Glider rules page and the Thermal Glider rules on the MAAA web site.

Click here to access the Electric Glider rules for 2008 - a variation and a bold experiment that was carried out successfully.

Click here to access the results for 2008 - results for all events:
Open Thermal Glider and RES
Open Electric Glider and Limited
DHLG - hand-launch R/C glider