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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.

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Attention needed: ...to referencing and citation (26,010) • ...to coverage and accuracy (23,830) • ...to structure (12,720) • ...to grammar (19,793) • ...to supporting materials (19,264)

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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Gliding WikiProject assessment statistics

Gliding pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	1
GA	5
B	177
C	397
Start	630
Stub	85
List	13
Category	100
Project	3
Redirect	20
Template	10
Assessed	1,441
Unassessed	3
Total	1,444
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 5,789	Ω = 4.47

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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.

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

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