![]() I sold the hang gliding school and the teaching gliders, sold my personal glider and left the sport. I also had had a back injury, and my doctor told me that a rough landing could possibly result in my being in a wheelchair. Not only that, but I was about to graduate as an optometrist, and my wife was pregnant with our first child. It was just too tough on me having my friends die. ![]() Lees' death was really the final straw for me and I decided to quit hang gliding. ![]() Lee was killed in a flying accident when a glider that he was test flying for someone went into a non-recoverable dive. His name was Lee Sterios, and he had Chandelle of (south?) San Francisco. I had the flying part of the class over at Daly City at the horse stables sand dunes just south of Fort Funston.Īnother instructor who later became a good friend shared the site with me. I limited classes to 8, and taught over 100 people how to fly. I was using it to help pay for school expenses. I had Jack Hall's Hang Gliding School in Berkeley. I also taught hang gliding from about 1975 to 1978. Wishing you and yours the best of Lift in Life, Thanks again for the input.Īre you any relation to the the Hall of the Hall Wind Meter? I publish many hang glider pages on the Internet. Free to register.Īny personal notes would be neat also introduce yourself! Or you may publish your letter in the forum! Here is the URL for the forum: Is it OK with you to edit to "Frank" and not "Chuck" for the variometer guy? And publish your history memory letter in US Hanks Hang Gliding Association forum in the history section? The text is free to all the world. Frank Colver was the variometer guy and Sky Sail designer maker. He and I contracted and I took over the rights of that newsletter and republished all his editions as he stopped the group of about 30 correspondents my deal was the Low & Slow magazine and later morphed it to Hang Glider Weekly and Hang Glider Business Weekly and Hang Glider Magazine. Richard Miller was the the mid 1960s produced of the Low, Slow & Out of Control private newsletter that you mentioned. ![]() So, glad you put your memory to work and shared. ![]()
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