Re: [RCSE] Who are Frank, Bob, and Jack

[strotherbj]

Didn't Frank Weston take a crew to the Nats about then, to get the magics kicked off...???

I was into that about then...hope this helps.

J

 

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Jack Strother
Granger, IN

LSF 2948
LSF Level V #117
LSF Official 1996 - 2004
CSS Gold

 

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> While cleaning up some old filed on my computer, I ran across this. It was
> posted on Compuserve sometime before 1996 when I dropped Compuserve. It
> is probably from 1994 since that was the first time we flew at Muncie and
> is the only year we flew from the knoll. And it was not the Nats but the
> LSF Tournament.
>
> Chuck Anderson
>
> SOARING WITH THE EAGLES
>
> Frank, Bob and Jack, to Muncie did go.
> The National were on and they had entered the show.
>
> Two Magics were ready, the epoxy dry,
> Poor Jack had a crash, during a last minute fly.
>
> They arrived at the site, and studied the scene.
> Their transmitters charged, their reflexes keen.
>
> The "two meters" were flying and the launches were steep.
> Most landings were perfect. The water looked deep.
>
> Next day they rose with the birds and went straight to the field.
> Our fellows were ready, if their nerves didn't yield.
>
> The top guns were there, thicker than fleas.
> Flying Falcons and Eagles, Saturns and Vees
>
> Our men watched Wurts, Weaver, Agnew and Shaw
> Talk about awesome. There should be a law.
>
> Projectiles....they launched as if shot from a gun.
> Then they thermalled like hawks, as high as the sun.
>
> Then down from the heavens, they came like a shot.
> Deployed their flaps and nailed the spot
>
> Our boys winched up their sailplanes, but their zenith was low.
> If the green air was left, to the right they would go.
>
> The lift was elusive, but most landings they made.
> Their flights weren't impressive, but their zeal didn't fade.
>
> When the contest was over they posted the score.
> Mike Fox was the winner, our guys' dreams were no more.
>
> Would they do it again? Would they challange the best?
> Will they hone their skills and go back for the test?
>
> The resonse was a chorus. The answer was, "yes."
> What is it that drives them, to take up this quest?
>
> To challange the gods. To fly from that knoll.
> To dream the impossible. That is their goal.
>
> "Anonymous"
>
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