Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

Wednesday, September 8th 2021

No flying on this beautiful Wednesday. All attention was paid to maintenance on the 1-34. Mark Martin, Chris Varvarosky, and Nick Hoffmann took…

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Saturday, August 28 2021

A busy day of soaring and glider flights at Marion. Student flights started mid-morning and continued into…

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Sunday, August 22nd 2021

A few club members braved the oppressive heat at Marion Airport for training flights and soaring.—there were…

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Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

Saturday, August 21st 2021

Amazing soaring today at Marion Airport with most of the club gliders flying. Lift developed by mid-day and was…

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On this day…

On this day, six years ago, August 16, 2015 John Stefanick solo’d and recorded his thoughts…

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Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

Sunday, August 15th 2021

It was a breezy, clear sky day today at Marion Municipal. We had five flights; two in the 1-26, two in the 1-34, and one…

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Mark Martin Mark Martin

Saturday, August 14th 2021

After a long stretch of hot weekends at Marion airport, finally a nice cool day for soaring. We operated mostly on the hard surface as…

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Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

Sunday, August 8th 2021

Beautiful skies over Marion Airport as gliders took to the air. Things got going a little before noon and it was a busy Sunday with 14 flights, including…

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Saturday, August 7th 2021

Glider operations started early today in Marion with 3 sailplanes and both tow ships. It was an exciting morning with…

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Tuesday, August 3rd 2021

Excellent soaring today at Marion Airport. Three flights, two were private ships (Mark Martin and Dave Stevenson) that departed before 1pm and one was…

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Sunday, August 1st 2021

The day started out with 4 student flights, but on the 5th flight Mark noticed a fast moving…

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Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

Saturday, July 31st 2021

Gliders and sailplanes filled the sky Saturday as both COSA and the Civil Air Patrol ran operations at Marion Municipal Airport. The day started with

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Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

July 24th, 25th, 26th 2021

Busy day of soaring in Marion Saturday. We had 25 flights with the SGS 2-33s, SGS 1-26, and SGS 1-34 all flying. Milt had the longest flight of about…

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Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

Sunday, July 18th

After a no-fly day due to weather yesterday, COSA was hopping today with a lot of glider flights and intro flights—all with…

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Mark Martin Mark Martin

Saturday, July 10th 2021

We had 21 flights today all in sugar. John Stefanick did 13 tows with Mike Cerrato, Bill Rettig and Chris Varvarosky splitting the rest…

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Mark Martin Mark Martin

Monday, July 5th 2021

It was hot Monday, but with a 10 knot breeze that made it somewhat bearable. We had 4 tow pilots and 3 instructors…

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Chris Ovdiyenko Chris Ovdiyenko

Saturday, July 3rd 2021

Beautiful day of soaring today in central Ohio. Gliders flights started a little later in the morning than usual, and it got busier and busier as…

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