Three or so years ago I traveled from Seattle to Visalia just to fly in a DLG fun fly on the first evening. I doubt that I will ever attend another NATS now that they are held so far away from the West Coast. I remember back when the LSF used to hold West coast contests in Santa Rosa CA and other locations. We even had a regional LSF contest in Seattle at the SASS field at 60 Acres South.
I also traveled to Queen Creek Arizona in 200o to get the Old Buzzard's signature on my Sunbird Wing. I will probably remain a level 4 LSF (#557) forever unless I get really lucky in a bunch of bigger than normal West Coast contests. On the other hand, I have the memories of great West Coast contests in Vernon BC, Seattle, Salem, Santa Rosa, Richland, Spokane, etc. I remember the First year that Col. Thacker entered his Baby Bollis in Scale in California. I also remember him riding a bike around the pit area and having at least 4 changes of clothes during the day. I now live in Port Angeles, WA and have 5 parks I can fly my DLG within 2 miles of my house. No one I know within 30 miles of here even knows what a DLG is. Well, not exactly, Marc Mech is in the Bellingham area which is less than that by boat but a really long way by car. Harley Michaelis, Scobie Puchtler, Phil Pearson, Adam Weston, Tim Johnson, Sherman Knight, Bill Kuhlman, Dave Beardsley, Russ Young and many others from Washington State are well known on the Left Coast but do not seem to find Indiana in the summertime worth the effort. -- Dick Barker Port Angeles, WA - Turning HLG Around - Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en In a message dated 8/3/2005 2:24:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >From people's experience and unbiased opinions?, what would be the best >organized competitions, meets, or fun flys have they encountered? Al, 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
