Soar America Gliders/soaring on 2040-parts.com
Toms River, New Jersey, US
Anthology of gliding and soaring in the United States. It is copyrighted 1976, but the weather and geography are still the same. Most of the soaring sites in this book are still active. I think the SSA still has it in their store.
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