Final Glide - Allan MacNicol

Yesterday, July 2 2005, soaring in New England lost a pioneer and a great
friend when Allan MacNicol died in the crash of his home built
Kitfox. Alan was one of the founders and first promoters of the Mt
Washington wave site and most recently championed that site becoming a
National Soaring Landmark. He was a life member of the SSA, a past
Director of the NSF and a leader in too many clubs and soaring
organizations to mention. He owned, restored and flew a catalog of
sailplanes that few pilots could match including an LK-10, a Hall
Cherokee, nearly every model Schweizer (including restoration of one of the
2 existing 1-21s), a Phoebus, an HP 14 and an ASW-17. It was my privilege
to have been his partner in many of them and to spend some of the best
hours of my life with him. We will not see another like him again. He will
be missed.

Roy Bourgeois

Vale, Allan. He was also the leader of a movement to repopularize ground
launching, issuing his "Ground Launch Newsletter" ca 1983 and organizing
ground launch seminars at the 1984 Hartford and 1986 Philadelphia SSA
Conventions. Ward Hindman (Colorado SA) and I (Sandhill SC, MI) were among
presenters at the latter and Allan inspired me to draft an index of ground
launch articles and issue a "rules of thumb" summary published in the
SHApTalk newsletter.

--John H. Campbell

Here is the link to an article that appeared in the "Concord Monitor" today.
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/p...49/1001/NEWS01

Allan's HP-14 variant is believed to be the first to sport a "T" tail.
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder/HP-14/SHP-1/N473.htm
(These pictures were taken before heavy snow collapsed his hangar.)

Though I never met Allan in person, he was an active member of the
hp-gliders new group.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hp-gliders

I often corresponded with him concerning my HP-14 restoration project.
His encouragement and advice was greatly appreciated.

Respectfully,
Wayne

http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder


"John H. Campbell" wrote in message
...
Vale, Allan. He was also the leader of a movement to repopularize ground
launching, issuing his "Ground Launch Newsletter" ca 1983 and organizing
ground launch seminars at the 1984 Hartford and 1986 Philadelphia SSA
Conventions. Ward Hindman (Colorado SA) and I (Sandhill SC, MI) were
among
presenters at the latter and Allan inspired me to draft an index of ground
launch articles and issue a "rules of thumb" summary published in the
SHApTalk newsletter.

--John H. Campbell

Roy -
I republished your words, with a picture of Allan, on the Region 1
website: http://www.ssaregion1.org/macnicol

Rick