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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Happy New Year
Message-ID: <729@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 31-Dec-85 15:07:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 31 15:07:51 1985
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Another newsgroup recently initiated an exchange of brief biographies.
This seems a good idea for net.aviation, as you come across as a pleasant
group of people, with none of the "...you idiot, everyone knows...etc"
responses to requests for information that disfigure some other groups,
and with many solid, well-informed postings (thanks Jeff Williams in
particular).

We seem to range from beginners to long-time pilots but we all obviously
love to talk about flight. Though a fly-in might be a problem, maybe we 
can have a post-in?

Since I suggested it, herewith my contribution:

First trained and soloed in a single seater (any guesses as to type :-) 
with the junior RAF (Air Training Corps) while at high school in England 
in 1950.  Later flew Tiger Moths and Chipmunks.  Long lay-off after coming 
to Yale as postdoc in 1957.  Began again and FAA licenced at Princeton in 
1970, both power (Cessna C-150 and C-172, Beech A-23, Yankee AA-1) and 
sailplane (Schweizer 2-33 and 1-26 (cross country for FAI Silver C in 1974)).  
After all these years have only 250 hrs power time and 100 in sailplanes!  
My biennial is now 3 months overdue.  Put in many more hours on business travel
(over 200 hrs/yr over the last 5 yrs).  Biggest recent flying thrill: JFK-LHR 
via Concorde (though to be honest, if it was my money to spend on flying,
I would have made the trip in a 747 as usual, and used the rest of the money 
for solo time in a 172 :-) 

New Year resolution:

To improve on my pilot average of 10 hrs per year (!) and then to get an 
instrument rating for those days when low stratus makes VFR a problem in the Bay Area.
With two kids through college, maybe that isn't such an unrealistic aim.
(If God meant man to fly, he would have given him more money :-)

Who will volunteer next?  I'd like to hear from the present read-only 
individuals as well as the read/write subscribers whose contributions
have already made net.aviation so enjoyable.

Thanks and A Happy New Year to all of you.

Bob Langridge			    rl@ucsfcgl (ARPA, UUCP, BITNET)
Computer Graphics Laboratory			 
University of California		     	    +1 415 476 2630 
San Francisco  CA  94143		    	    +1 415 476 1540