RE: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well...
Connecticut is a great place to be FROM. -Original Message- From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:26 AM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: RE: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well... At 01:02 PM 4/18/2005, you wrote: >Souther Cal is the place for you!d California is like Texas. Both are great places to be from. :-) Chuck Anderson RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
RE: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well...
At 01:02 PM 4/18/2005, you wrote: Souther Cal is the place for you!d California is like Texas. Both are great places to be from. :-) Chuck Anderson RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
RE: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well...
Souther Cal is the place for you! -Original Message- From: Ed Jett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:40 AM To: [RCSE] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well... I guess then MS is very underprivileged. As far as I know we don't have any Starbucks coffee shops. But, I must admit, I haven't been to every town in MS. And as far as I know, there is no one else in east central MS that flys gliders on a regular basis. I'm looking for a job in a location with an RC glider club and a Starbucks or "other designer" coffee shop. Ed Marion, MS - Original Message - From: "Hank Schorz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Hall, Stuart A'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: RE: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well... > Well, as an original Connecticut Yankee (Stratford), I returned home for a > vist a few months ago only to find the statee so underpriveleged, that > there > were only 50 Starbucks in the entire state. Can you imagine that! Where I > currently live (Santa Clarita - Southern Cal) in a small town, there are > 20 > coffee shops (most are Starbucks) just within 5 miles - Now that's > progress! > > -Original Message- > From: Hall, Stuart A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:10 AM > To: soaring@airage.com > Subject: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well... > > For the past two weekends in a row a rather informal group of fliers has > gathered at a local field in Durham, CT. Last weekend we had 8 fliers, > this > weekend about 7 (some different faces). This is quite a resurgence in > activity from three years ago when I started and I was lucky to find 2 > other > guys at the field on any day. > > The favorite flying around here is handlaunch, either discus or zip start. > 1/2 of the guys have the high buck types (e.g. Taboo) with the other half > having either built up Gamblers or homemade ships. > > This is quite a resurgence in unpowered flight. While there is an > esailplane > club nearby, for several years anyone in the local area wanting to fly > without motors with more than one or two other guys, such as at a contest, > would have to travel to Long Island, NY, up to the Charles River club in > Massachusetts, or Maine. While there are no plans for any contests > locally, > and we will still travel to those locations to get our LSF vouchers > points, > it is quite nice to see so many thermal/sink indicators in the sky at > once. > It makes flying so much easier! > > So how is sailplane flying attendance in your neck of the woods? > > > p.s. The glow fliers were outnumbered for these two weekends in a row. We > even had interest from several of the free flight guys wanting to dust off > their '76 polyhedrals, put in new radio gear and come flying again. Sweet! > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" > and > "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that > subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with > MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL > are generally NOT in text format > > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" > and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note > that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format > with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and > AOL are generally NOT in text format > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well...
I guess then MS is very underprivileged. As far as I know we don't have any Starbucks coffee shops. But, I must admit, I haven't been to every town in MS. And as far as I know, there is no one else in east central MS that flys gliders on a regular basis. I'm looking for a job in a location with an RC glider club and a Starbucks or "other designer" coffee shop. Ed Marion, MS - Original Message - From: "Hank Schorz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Hall, Stuart A'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: RE: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well... Well, as an original Connecticut Yankee (Stratford), I returned home for a vist a few months ago only to find the statee so underpriveleged, that there were only 50 Starbucks in the entire state. Can you imagine that! Where I currently live (Santa Clarita - Southern Cal) in a small town, there are 20 coffee shops (most are Starbucks) just within 5 miles - Now that's progress! -Original Message- From: Hall, Stuart A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:10 AM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well... For the past two weekends in a row a rather informal group of fliers has gathered at a local field in Durham, CT. Last weekend we had 8 fliers, this weekend about 7 (some different faces). This is quite a resurgence in activity from three years ago when I started and I was lucky to find 2 other guys at the field on any day. The favorite flying around here is handlaunch, either discus or zip start. 1/2 of the guys have the high buck types (e.g. Taboo) with the other half having either built up Gamblers or homemade ships. This is quite a resurgence in unpowered flight. While there is an esailplane club nearby, for several years anyone in the local area wanting to fly without motors with more than one or two other guys, such as at a contest, would have to travel to Long Island, NY, up to the Charles River club in Massachusetts, or Maine. While there are no plans for any contests locally, and we will still travel to those locations to get our LSF vouchers points, it is quite nice to see so many thermal/sink indicators in the sky at once. It makes flying so much easier! So how is sailplane flying attendance in your neck of the woods? p.s. The glow fliers were outnumbered for these two weekends in a row. We even had interest from several of the free flight guys wanting to dust off their '76 polyhedrals, put in new radio gear and come flying again. Sweet! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
RE: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well...
Well, as an original Connecticut Yankee (Stratford), I returned home for a vist a few months ago only to find the statee so underpriveleged, that there were only 50 Starbucks in the entire state. Can you imagine that! Where I currently live (Santa Clarita - Southern Cal) in a small town, there are 20 coffee shops (most are Starbucks) just within 5 miles - Now that's progress! -Original Message- From: Hall, Stuart A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:10 AM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well... For the past two weekends in a row a rather informal group of fliers has gathered at a local field in Durham, CT. Last weekend we had 8 fliers, this weekend about 7 (some different faces). This is quite a resurgence in activity from three years ago when I started and I was lucky to find 2 other guys at the field on any day. The favorite flying around here is handlaunch, either discus or zip start. 1/2 of the guys have the high buck types (e.g. Taboo) with the other half having either built up Gamblers or homemade ships. This is quite a resurgence in unpowered flight. While there is an esailplane club nearby, for several years anyone in the local area wanting to fly without motors with more than one or two other guys, such as at a contest, would have to travel to Long Island, NY, up to the Charles River club in Massachusetts, or Maine. While there are no plans for any contests locally, and we will still travel to those locations to get our LSF vouchers points, it is quite nice to see so many thermal/sink indicators in the sky at once. It makes flying so much easier! So how is sailplane flying attendance in your neck of the woods? p.s. The glow fliers were outnumbered for these two weekends in a row. We even had interest from several of the free flight guys wanting to dust off their '76 polyhedrals, put in new radio gear and come flying again. Sweet! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Connecticut sailplane flying is alive and well...
For the past two weekends in a row a rather informal group of fliers has gathered at a local field in Durham, CT. Last weekend we had 8 fliers, this weekend about 7 (some different faces). This is quite a resurgence in activity from three years ago when I started and I was lucky to find 2 other guys at the field on any day. The favorite flying around here is handlaunch, either discus or zip start. 1/2 of the guys have the high buck types (e.g. Taboo) with the other half having either built up Gamblers or homemade ships. This is quite a resurgence in unpowered flight. While there is an esailplane club nearby, for several years anyone in the local area wanting to fly without motors with more than one or two other guys, such as at a contest, would have to travel to Long Island, NY, up to the Charles River club in Massachusetts, or Maine. While there are no plans for any contests locally, and we will still travel to those locations to get our LSF vouchers points, it is quite nice to see so many thermal/sink indicators in the sky at once. It makes flying so much easier! So how is sailplane flying attendance in your neck of the woods? p.s. The glow fliers were outnumbered for these two weekends in a row. We even had interest from several of the free flight guys wanting to dust off their '76 polyhedrals, put in new radio gear and come flying again. Sweet! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
