Other Hobbies?

Champtree,

I flew a Discus B (full scale) 500 KM (Minden to Tinnemaha Dam & back; south of Bishop), on a 7 1/2 hour glorious flight, mostly between 15,000 & 18,000 feet.

Waterskiing and Boating are the only ones I'm as fanatical about as audio, though I also have many others . . . Snowskiing, golf, carpentry, metalworking . . .

Sorry Shventus, I don't know what that glider is.
Now if you said Stagger Wing Beach.... Now your talkin!

Champtree,

Huh? you had said a discus type, so I assumed you knew what a Discus sailplane is, oh well. Yes I know full well what a Staggerwing is. There was one of the best that I had ever seen, based at an airport in NY called Kobelt. As a matter of fact, they had many pristine vintage planes there - Myers, Staggerwing, Stearman, Trimotor, etc. Great little airport close to Rhinebeck.

Most airports are all fenced-up because of 9/11 and you can't get close to some of those great planes.

BTW I would like to get a discus glider,