Crestline Soaring Society

I saw this announcement in our local newspaper today. I wish I could attend (but can't). I have read two of her books about early hang gliding and the story of Wills Wing. I think this would be a very interesting talk.

Regards,
Frank Hamann
Orange, CA
H4, WW US166

Wills to speak at TAHS

The Tustin Area Historical Society (TAHS) will welcome local author Maralys Wills as its guest speaker on February 16.

I hearby challenge everyone at every local site to compete with your friends to see who can have the shortest flight on the shortest day of the year. Winner receives a small (or short) prize to be determined by local crowd. and the losers? well...
HAPPY SOLSTICE!

We had a great turnout for the CSS Toy Drive 2009! It was windy from the north, but warm. Seemed like about 20 pilots came to hang out, eat pizza and drop off toys to add to the club-purchased pile. The Suburban was full of goodies for the tots. The local firefighters came out to have some pizza and socialize and then we delivered all the toys to the fire station.

Sylmar Hang Gliding Association is organizing a parachute clinic and inviting neighboring pilots.

For less than the price of a parachute repack you can learn to repack your own parachute and more!

Created by well-known harness designer and owner of High Energy Sports, Betty Pfeiffer and her husband have agreed to bring us their widely successful one-day workshop that really is more than a repack. For those of you who have taken this course you know that the knowledge and skills you gained from Betty’s clinic were worth far more than the price you paid. Some groups have charged as much as $150 for this clinic and others have brought in parachute manufacturers and other hang gliding experts to make it a profitable fund raising event. However, our goal is a bit different. We want to bring this clinic to all qualified pilots during a time when many of us are facing economic challenges that make hang gliding a little more difficult to afford. And we want to charge no more than $50 – less than the price of a parachute repack! In order to do this we need at least 20 pilots to sign up by January 1, 2010.

We're having our annual toy drive on Saturday December 19. We collect unwrapped toys for all ages and add them to the nearby fire station's toy gathering efforts. The firefighters bring a truck out to the LZ and we get to interact in a non-emergency situation. We haven't seen them much this year, which is a good thing!

Toys will be collected in the LZ on Saturday from Noon until 2 PM.

Thanksgiving day weekend, Nov. 28th. Marina West LZ. 1st 2nd 3rd place combined Hang Para. Hand blown glass trophies donated by Everyday Mike. Greg Lunt Meet Director. Spot landing, duration and bomb drop. This year is a benifit for Bruce Carr. Food, fun and this year special award for the best toe dip. $5 day use for the marina and $25 entry fee.

RESCHEDULED for Sunday, 11/29 S

Making the road safe for paint

Hey all,

Looking forward to the fly in tomorrow.

Forgive if this is inappropriate forum chat, but there's an attractive woman involved...

I'm looking to borrow a tandem glider and passenger harness tomorrow sometime. If any local pilot can come through with this request, there'll be an attractive woman (swooning post tandem glassy eyed) hanging in the LZ tomorrow. I realize the scene will be filled with hotties, but consider my plea.

This in from Davis Straub,

"I would like to invite Southern California pilots to come out to the Santa Cruz Flats Race in Casa Grande, Arizona, September 20-26th. This is a USHPA and CIVL sanctioned race to goal format competition. It is a great competition and we've had a wonderful time there the past two years staying at the hotel, sitting by the pool, getting pulled up next to the golf course, and flying in smooth air conditions over the Arizona flatlands.

John, Thanks for spear heading the barbecue today.....I am still stuffed.

Thursday turned out to be like a Mini Fly In. Lots of locals out along with the visiting pilots.

hey girls! is anyone going to this? 9/24 through 9/27, 2009.
i've heard that it's super-fun, a great way to meet women in our sport, and there's an easy l/z...

Hi All,

I'm looking to collect favorite songs for the fly in this fall. Please email me at abc3 ~at~ johnwright.com, attaching one MP3 per email, with your favorite tunes.

Thanks in Advance.
JW aka KK

Due to glitches with gigapan stitching software and vegas movie studio platinum (neither seem to like my quad core proc), I have been sitting on some media from the dunlap trip.

One of the 'putes I used for the airport project has a single core and is now dutifully rendering my back log of videos.

Here is the Dunlap trip:
http://vimeo.com/5071940

Here is a gigapan pano of the LZ.
http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=25088

It's on... July 11 is AJ Airpark Fly-In.

Di found a great live band. If anyone has a beefy generator we can use, let her know.

Food, of course, will be provided for $10 and $10 for the day use fee for non-annual-members.

Crestline Soaring Society hats will be for sale and there will be custom-embroidered 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place hats (PG and HG) as trophies for the spot landing competition ($5 to enter). Win a hat and remind people all year long that you are better than they.

Memorial Day, Mingus Mtn AZ.

L-R: Rod and Gwen Clark, Kathy and Dusty and Ashley Rhodes, Marilyn and Bill Soderquist, Spike, ??? E-Teamer, Dave Aldrich, ??? E-Teamer, Megret Olewiler, ??? E-Teamer, Kenny Westfall.

John W after cooking for hours.

Leaving the LZ at 4:30 PM Wed. starting the 22nd and every Wed. all summer long! See you Wed. WHACK

This is developing, I have little information at this point, but it's worth getting out for planning purposes:

CSS'es second road trip of the year will be to Mingus Mountain in Arizona the weekend of Memorial Day (May 22-25).

Personally, I will be flying one day, whatever day has the best forecast. The rest of the time I'll be doing other things with wifey and pipsqueek in the area. Some may want to bring their families and do other things in the Prescott area.