Crestline Soaring Society

Looks like a flyable day today, but no shuttle service. Anyone interested in giving it a try?

Tom
909-730-7503

Does anyone know about safely cleaning a hang glider?
I may have gotten the following wrong but I asked one of the guys from Wills Wing today if its OK to use soap to wash a hang glider sail. I thought he said you can use a mild detergent to clean a spot but that you should never wash the whole wing. As I understood it (or perhaps misunderstood) your not supposed to wet the whole wing because the sail is impregnated with a resin to protect it and getting the sail wet breaks this protection down. The sail can suffer shrinkage and as a result its flying characteristics are degraded. I was concerned by this because I thought I had heard it was a good idea to rinse the glider off occasionally, and I have done so.