On Friday, February 23, 2018 at 9:52:48 PM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Frank Whiteley wrote on 2/23/2018 4:16 PM:
On Friday, February 23, 2018 at 4:13:19 PM UTC-7, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Friday, February 23, 2018 at 6:05:21 PM UTC-5, Paul Agnew wrote:
At some point, we should get a volunteer team together to create
a searchable database of all past issues of Soaring by article title...

Converting the entire archive to searchable text is doable...
I think Dennis's note was a "Letter to the Editor" but I'm not sure.

I think the name you may be looking for is Dennis Gaiotti. The Soaring Archive is word searchable, especially with the correct terms, wildcards, and quotes.

There was a Dennis Galloti from the Portland, OR area. I flew with him a number of
times, and bought a self-rigging dolly and another fellow manutactured.

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Dec 2014a" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarm

http://soaringsafety.org/prevention/...anes-2014A.pdf

Dennis Galotti, Lake Oswego, SSA membership lapsed 1998. Sadly, deceased.

Frank Whiteley