Al truly was a gentleman and ambassador for soaring and will be missed by us all. The quiet dignity of this man is legendary. Cerca 1964… while my dad was driving me to Crystal near Pearblossom, CA... for my first glider ride, a Boomerang trailer and car passed us by at 80mph. That was Al Leffler dashing off to fly at El Mirage. Later memories of Al were at the 2012 World Gliding Championship Uvalde where he did the “scrutineering” and installed tracker devices which I helped with. I’ll never forget orbiting around with the Nimbus 4 “LB” and fellow “kiddie” gliders at CCSC contests in the San Joaquin Valley. One year ago we sat together alone in the lobby and reminisced while at the Reno SSA convention.

Walt WX