(Steve Bralla) wrote in message ...
(Dave Piotrowski) writes:

You're right Liam, none of those guys made it back to where they started ;-)

More accurate would be: the glider in which "you can go somewhere, you
just can't get back to where you started."


Anyone making a statement like this hasn't looked at the OLC traces for Doug's
flights.

Steve


I have flown with Doug and heard him out in areas encouraging pilots
with over twice the performance to venture out. Then he makes it home,
quite a bit later, but he regularly returns. Doug has skill,
knowledge, patience, and a willingess to land out (which he doesn't
often have to exercise). One postitive aspect of the 1-26 is that you
can land it almost anywhere with little chance for damage.

John