Hey Team! I may have missed the opening thread to this topic, but Chuck must be chiming in on what we all appreciate about Gordy! What a nice thing to do for a fellow pilot! Thanks Chuck!
I get really tired of the 'personal bashing' that goes on over RCSE. I was thinking of unsubscribing. Then Chuck comes along and restores my confidence in this chat group. There are so many people out there in soaring-land who I have met and would like to say something nice things about. I once learned that there is nothing in life which people appreciate more than hearing their name coming from the lips of another person. Simple words of appreciation are powerful. Gosh, I seemed to have gotten a bit carried away! While you and I may never meet personally, I just wanted to add that I value and appreciate all of you who share my interest in 'things which fly'. And I look forward to meeting you someday... at some flying field located somewhere on planet earth. And when I get to your location, I'll probably find these words carved in the trunk of a tree... "Gordy was here!" Epilogue: And what about Gordy? In my opinion, Gordy is a marketing genius. He's a one-man-brand whom we all instantly recognize only by his first name! Like Nike; Reebok; Dell; JR ... Gordy! And thanks to you and RCSE, we have made 'Gordy' a household word. You gotta love Gordy for who he is. I appreciate the fact that Gordy is willing to share his thoughts on a variety of topics, knowing he is going to take some heat. That takes some courage. Too much of anything will make you sick. But just a little 'Gordy' is like adding 'hot sauce' to a burrito! It makes the burrito worth eating! Bill Rakozy :) P.S. You can get some 'Gordy' today, at a chat group near you! -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:01 AM To: soaring@airage.com Subject: [RCSE] 14th Anniversary 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 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
