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Club Activities
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Soaring every
weekend at Hemet
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Harry Irvine waiting
for a tow plane.
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Lynn Erickson sits
on the tarmac in his Schweizer 1-36. Lynn restores vintage
gliders.
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Kjell Uddeborg
during takeoff roll in the club PW-5.
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Keith Schrader is
getting ready
to take raffle winner John German up for a ride.
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Richard Harwick and
Paul Savaria
in our Grob 103 waiting for the tow plane.
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Roger Worden checked out in
the OCSA PW-5. Way to go!
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Gotta love it! 1200
ft/min on the average thermaling at 14,000. Turn up the O2!.
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In the spring our field
turns in to a sea of yellow flowers.
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Larry Tuohino
wearing his OCSA shirt completes his 500k Diamond Distance flight.
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Meetings and
Instruction
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Club meeting at our
clubhouse.
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Club BBQ and soaring contest.
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Bill conducts a barograph class.
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Air Shows
We exhibit
gliders at local air shows to drive interest in soaring.
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The OCSA booth
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Showing
one of the
guests the inside of the PW-5 cockpit.
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Leo Breithaupt,
Cristina
Cvitanich, and Dick Le Blanc in front of
our PW5 that we had brought to our booth.
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Conventions
We help the SSA promote soaring at events such as the Academy of Model
Aeronautics national convention
(lots of us fly Radio Control aircraft, too!)
Christmas party
And awards...
and paper airplane contest...
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Group shot from the 2003
Christmas
party.
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Richard Harwick
receives
an award .
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Larry
Tuohino receives the "land out" award, again :)
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Fun Events
The OCSA Board tried their hand at sailing on the water instead of in the
sky.
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| Preflight
briefing |
This
guy only gets to steer when we're safely tied to the dock! |
Larry
& Eric |
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Dick & Jerry
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Mary
takes the helm.
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Too much rudder!
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