On Apr 3, 1:12*pm, "Paul Remde" wrote:
I just received some very bad news regarding Charlie Spratt. *

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I'm not a contest pilot, but it's hard anyone in soaring to NOT love
Charlie . . . I'll never forget the blowing-up-my-dad's-boat story
from one of the conventions. I knew then we must have been adolescent
soul mates.