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I saw lots of great flying at the last meeting. We were first treated to the maiden voyage (?) of ``Bear'' Brock's new giant-scale P-47 Thunderbolt which flew in very scale-like fashion (naturally, Bear thinks it's underpowered... grin). Carlos Rangel made the finest one-wheel landing I've ever seen after the left wheel on his blue clipped-wing Piper Cub fell off immediately after takeoff. I mean, he kept that left wing aloft until the plane was nearly stopped! Both pilot and wheels are accounted for and doing fine. :) We also saw many excellent flights from regulars like Frenchy Couture (who was flying a very clean pattern-like ship with great smoothness and making it look all too easy), Dan Bradley with his trusty Lazy ``ground loops are inevitable'' Bee, Rick Scanlon with his Sky King, and Jim Core with his ME-109 look-alike sport plane (the actual name of which escapes me, but he tells me it's kitted by the same folks who make the Sky King). If you witness first solo flights (instructors take note!), flights of new planes, funny incidents at the field, spectacular crashes suitable for Puckerbrush awards, or anything worthy of mention here - I'd love to hear about 'em!

In other news, it seems I got under a few folks' skins with the last Newsletter's article concerning the ``goals of the club''. Wow! I thought this Newsletter went straight to the bottom of the bird cage; it turns out someone's paying attention after all. Thanks for reading - heh, both of you!

Responses were quite varied; ranging from enthusiastic to constructive to querying to downright aggravated. In short, the consistent message I received from all respondents was that the minimum-obstruction ``just-get-out-there-and-go-fly'' structure of our club should remain; no one wants to tamper with it. It's perhaps the best part of being a SAM member, so why mess with success? But taking the time to assess the direction of the club (thereby clearing such matters up) isn't a bad thing to do, and of course... that was the point of the exercise.

Hey - shouldn't you be out flying, or something? :)


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Craig Kulesa
Fri Dec 4 19:26:59 MST 1998