Charly, If I read correctly, you're in the Seattle area. The Seattle Area Soaring Society flies at 60 Acres park, which is on the east side in Redmond.
Check out our site: www.seattleareasoaringsociety.com Once the weather starts to get a bit better, we'll have our fun flys on Wednesday evenings starting the first week of May. Come on out and see what we're all about! - Dave -----Original Message----- From: Charly Whitaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 19:15 To: Soaring Subject: [RCSE] Re: Getting back to you.. Hello, I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for writing to me. Talk about getting an education while looking for a glider...LOL Also even managed to run into a fellow kite flier along the way. My name is Charly, and I own "Kite Classifieds" WWW.kitelife.com/classifieds and Steve Bixby and I have met each others a few times. (are you going to kite party 4 Steve? I can't make it this year) Back in the early 1970's while stationed in the military at Fort Monmouth, N.J. I got into flying gliders. In my off duty time I went to work for Ernie Weiss who owned J and J Enterprises. J and J produced such kits as the "Banshee", the "Trouble Maker" The "American Eagle" glider, and "Ed Norba's quarter midget mustang" among other things. I also met Arnie and Ingrid Peterson who lived near Sandy Hook area. Arnie and a friend who I can't remember were developing the "Nebula" glider. That was my very first foam cored and wood sheeted winged glider. I was spoiled after that, and from then on everything had to have foam wings with wood covering...LOL I even made the rest of my control line planes with foam wings that were wood covered. I was lucky enough to have a friend with his own home made foam cutting system. I got out of flying in the early 1980's (about the time I got into kite flying...LOL), but I have always missed the peace and quiet I enjoyed while out flying my gliders some where. Like I said before when I got out of flying gliders the hot thing was foam cored wings with wood sheeting the wing. Thanks to all of you that have written I am learning that things have changed a lot since I left the sport back then...LOL So let me change what I am looking for just a little then. I would like a fiber glass or carbon fiber fuselage with foam cored wings covered in what ever they are using to replace the wood I use to cover wings with. I would also like to find a glider that is electric powered if possible because I hate using hi starts, and there usually isn't a lot of room around Seattle to lay out hi starts. I am also looking for a thermal glider and not a slope glider. Thanks Again Charly Whitaker 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
