TOPIC: Introduce yourself

Ed Anderson - Member of the Long Island Silent Flyers, Syosset, Long Island, NY

We are a glider club flying at the Stillwell nature Preserve. www.lisf.org
We host 4 soaring contest a month. TD, DLG, RES and ALES

We are also a member of the Eastern Soaring League www.ESL.org

We host two ESL TD and 1 ESL DLG contest each year.

If you are ever visiting the NYC/LI area, stop by for a visit.

My name is Ryan Woebkenberg. I live in central Indiana and am a LS4 working on LSF5.

Welcome to the forum. Are you a member of a club?

Ed, I'm pretty sure you know me. :) I'm Ryan from RC groups. I wish I could have met you at the NAts but I couldn't be there the days you were.

I am sort of a member of MIST, a small sailplane club based in Muncie, IN. I just re joined this year. I currently live about an hour away but with family and work I just make it to Muncie a few times a year.

Ryan

Yes Ryan, I know you but did not recall your ever mentioning a club. I did not realize you were so close to Muncie.

Ed,

I have lived in different parts of Indiana. Prior to 2012 I lived in southern Indiana for several years and that was about 4 hours from Muncie. Then I was about 70 miles from LASS in Louisvillenand I was an occasional member of that club.

Ryan

Hello All,
I live in central Indiana. I fly wooden Sailplanes, they are all I can afford.
I too sometimes fly at Muncie AMA Center.
I started with a Sanwa Radio and a Craft Air Drifter 2 "complete" kit with a upstart. Flown first in April 1981.

At present, the hangar holds a Bird of Time from the Dynaflite kit, and two scratch built aircraft. One a Ken Bates' Windlord from AMA plans (and an RCGroups build thread). The third is a copy from memory of Tom Williams' Wind Drifter.
A Renaud Sagitta 900 is being kitted this winter from RCM plans.

I am level 2. Lazy I guess.

Best Regards to all
Jim

Hey Jim, welcome!

I am a big fan of wooden gliders too having several. I wish I could have made the woody event this past weekend at Muncie. A family birthday party in Jasper kept me out of town this weekend.

Ryan

Thanks for the welcome.
I too missed the Woodie meet this year. Where it once cost little to drive to a flying site, now it is a major part of a hobby budget at 4 bux a gallon.

Sheesh, I pumped gas for customers at 28.9 when drafted out of that job to another less well paid shaft.
The 99% knows about the shaft by now.

I enjoy the wooden aircraft very much.
J

Been setting out any soaring for too many years. Hopefully the electric "winch in the nose" will be adopted which will allow me to go after level II. It takes a lot to get me going at age 82, but that would do it.

Red Scholefield
Flying Gators Model Airplane Club, Newberry, FL