Glad to hear that John is stil with us and is getting back into soaring. The last time I saw John was at the 1985 Great Race. Dan Pruss, John, and I discussed having the SOAR club hold an invitational contest in 1986 in rememberance of the last SOAR Nats. It would be by invitation only for anyone who flew in any of the six SOAR Nats. Only sailplane designs that had actually flown in one of the SOAR Nats could be flown although the contestant would not have to fly the design he flew in the SOAR Nats. Both Dan and John though that it was a good idea and was planning to take it up with the SOAR club. Not long after, Dan found that he had cancer and nothing ever came of the invitational contest.
Chuck Anderson At 11:43 AM 9/23/2003 -0700, you wrote: >I received a call from out of the blue Sunday evening >that I thought I might share with you: > >John Nielsen, one of the founding members of the >Chicago SOAR club, emcee of the many SOAR NATS >banquets and the man who decimated Schwinn Corp. each >year to bring adminitrative assistants (we called them >secretaries back then)to perform the scoring for the >SOAR NATS called me. > >John is 79 years old, has lived all over the country, >had been flying some quarter scale (J-3 Cubs on >floats), took up and gave up full scale sailing on the >Great Lakes and is now renovating some of his original >sailplanes, two that he flew at the first >international soaring event held in Doylestown PA >before soaring was an official event in AMA OR FAI. > >Seems John was surfing the web and came across the LSF >website (SilentFlight.org)and recognized my name as a >potential nominee for office, followed the links and >read my bio and decided to call. John is interested >in rejoining AMA and SOAR once some pesky cataracts >are taken care of and he returns to Illinois from his >Florida winter compound in the Spring. He even wanted >to find out what his original LSF number and level >were (both long forgotten) and he's interested in some >of the "woody" events Ray Hayes is promoting. > >We spent over an hour talking about all the changes in >the sport since the early 70's, the mutual friends, >some passed on, some still active, and the 30 years >just melted away. > >What a great sport that fosters relationships that >transcend generations like this. > > >===== >Tom (TK) Kallevang >Wheeling, IL >SOAR, LSF #303 Level V > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software >http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com >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. > 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.
