Today is the fourteenth anniversary of my meeting Gordy. It was on a
cold January day in 1995 that I got a call from Gordy Stahl. He said
that he was passing through and would like to meet me. I couldn't
remember anybody named Gordy but said OK. I then looked into my
records and found that a few years earlier I had sold him an early
version of my Airfoil Plot program.
It is almost impossible to give directions to my house to anybody not
familiar with Tullahoma so I said to give me a call when he got off
the Interstate and I would meet him at the model airplane
field. Gordy was driving a pickup towing a long long trailer
carrying some earth moving machinery. I live way back in the woods
on a narrow driveway but some how Gordy made it my drive without
hitting any oak trees. Fortunately I have a circle drive in front
of my house so he didn't have to turn that rig around because I
didn't have 40 acres.
I assumed that Gordy wanted to talk about airfoils and plotting
software but it turned out that he wanted to see my models. I had
just finished restoring my Corvette and my shop was still cluttered
with car tools so most of my models were in storage and I didn't have
anything to show. We discussed flying and Gordy remarked that he
didn't like contests because he didn't like spending a whole day for
only a few flights.
Chuck Anderson
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