[RCSE] Bozo Wants to Know...Top Ten of USA Soaring

1999-08-13 Thread Bagswereus
If you were to build a list of the all time top ten guys of USA R/C soaring who would they be? USA RC soaring has been in place for what, some thirty years... Well, guys who is one the list? Now, so you don't have to work to hard I'll make it easy for you... Bozo should be placed near the

Re: [RCSE] Bozo Wants to Know...Top Ten of USA Soaring

1999-08-13 Thread Lynford Disbrow
Bozo: There is an old guy that flies down in the park and he is always getting kids to fly his old built-up glider. I guess he has taught a hundred kids and others to fly. He doesn't fly much because someone else always has his old Futaba, he doesn't do precision landings but he most always

Re: [RCSE] Bozo Wants to Know...Top Ten of USA Soaring

1999-08-13 Thread Jason Werner
Bozo, #1 for me - Lee Renaud. He may not have been the best pilot, not have been the best flier, and may not have won the best contests...but he did more for RC and soaring specifically than pretty much any single person in my memory. I know that many who had the chance to meet him would

Re: [RCSE] Bozo Wants to Know...Top Ten of USA Soaring

1999-08-13 Thread Rich Hollyday
You guys from TOSS (Thousand Oaks Soaring Society), do you know an older flier by the name of Norm? You honored him about 1991 or so with an award. He flies on the slope above the water tank near downtown. Let me know if you know him. He got me started in RC soaring, what a great guy. Patient,