Ben, Thanks for the information on Rick, flying the big stuff sounds pretty cool, as does your club. I knew Rick would end up excelling at something cool, He was the Joe Wurts of his time.
Craig Allen LSF 111 Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:26:26 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RCSE] RE: OLD LSF PICTURES Craig asked what became of Rick Walters. He gave up R/C for the real thing. He lives in (or near) Minden (near Reno), NV. He's a very successful and competitive soaring pilot and been on the US Soaring team several times. Many of your current full scale competition soaring pilots were modelers in the 70's (me included. I just never gave up the models). Gary Ittner is another US Soaring team member who flew R/C sailplanes in the 70's. In fact he showed up at the last Int'l Hand Launch Glider Fest (Poway, CA) just to see what was going on in the R/C world these days. Other R/Cers that you probably know and also fly full scale sailplane competitions are Larry Jolly, Paul Trist, Mike Reagan. We're trying to get Joe Wurts to join the club, but he's under some weird impression that he doesn't have enough time. Daryll Perkins is almost there, too. He recently earned his pilots license, but the plane he flies has a prop on the nose. He sat in my ASW-28 this last summer and I know he's hooked. Where else can you go after winning the worlds 4 times? <A HREF="www.planes-wings-things.com">www.planes-wings-things.com</A> has links to our club (full scale) at California City (near Mojave, CA). If you're in the So Calif area, come out and see what it's all about. The club is great way to get started in full scale soaring. Dues are $50 per month and no hourly charge for the planes. Yeah, you heard right. All the flying you can stand for 50 bucks per month (tows are about $25, but you usually only need one per day in the summer). Our club is unique in that it is geared towards X/C, competition, and even wave soaring in the winter the club fleet includes a Discus). Sorry, I didn't mean to go off on a tangent for this post, but full scale soaring is where many R/Cers end up. Ben Clerx LSF 305 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.
