Conference vmszoo::rc

It is time for me to depart as well. Being a contractor means I know my date 
in advance. This friday is the day. I haven't found anything in DEC at the 
moment but I'm sure my skill set will bring me back in here in the future. I 
will miss the instant access to international advice and the comraderie with 
people I've never physically met, yet know so well.

I'll keep in touch through the people I fly with and want to thank everyone 
for prodding me into doing so many diverse things in this hobby. I'm no longer 
happy plodding through the sky with a high wing trainer and have actually 
competed in the Nats (and will be in Lubbock next year!)

I started flying in 1971 and after getting married and having kids, my stuff
sat on the shelf for 8 years until I discovered this file in 1988. 4 and a 
half years later I'm supporting my habit selling foam cores and actually
manufacturing a kit (Gremlin - December 1992 RCM). This file has been a big 
part of those years and I'll miss the people. I hope not to discover too many 
people missing when I get my next DEC contract.

I'll be working in the shop the next couple of weeks and the business line 
rings in there (and I have a speaker phone so I can keep building 8^). If you 
have a question or comment or need some cores, give me a ring or drop me a note.

Jim Reith
P.O. Box 863
Southbridge, MA 01550
(508) 765-9998

If I'm out and you leave a message on the machine, please leave an extrernal 
number, not a DTN 8^)

    Jim,
    
       Sorry to hear you're leaving.  The glider guiders are slowly
    going away(Terry T., Mark Antry).  I will certainly miss our
    discussions.  Heck who am I going to preach to about electrics!
    Please have someone up there enter a note about the electric
    you are building when you get it flying.  I will be very curious
    to see how it goes.  Best of luck, hope we meet someday.  The
    sailplane world is small, I bet we will.  I am planning to
    come to the NSP Cape fly next year.
    
                                               Regards,
    
                                               Jim
    BTW- if you want to talk electrics/gliders my home phone is
    (716)367-2911, always glad to talk(as you know).

As long as I'm still at DEC, Jim will have an ear(and mouth!) in the conference!
He's been a great help with my RC experience and IS(notice I said "is") a good 
friend who'll remain so long after his "temporary vaction" from DEC. The lunch
time flying and hanger session with Jimbo have been some of the most enjoyable 
times and will be missed(for the moment!!), but we'll just do more weekend 
flying(I can hear both of our wives now!!!!! :-)  )

If anyone ever needs to get a message to him, send it to me and I'll make sure 
he gets it. Besides, it ain't like he's dying or something!! :-) :-) 

-Lamar

    Sorry to see you go, Jimbo. I think between the two of us, we've flown
    gliders at every vacant lot bigger than a postage stamp between
    Marlboro and Lowell! I know I'll be seeing you occasionally in the
    future, but I'll miss the daily discussions on the tube as well as the
    ones over a Burger King Slider. Good luck at your next job, and hope
    you make it back here soon!
    
    Dave W.
    
    

Actually, Dave, I was discussing things with Lamar and discovered that it 
really wasn't that much further to stop at Acton or Bose at lunch after 
dropping stuff off at UPS in Shrewsbury 8^) I may actually be able to make 
MORE of the lunchtime sessions! Makes a nice break in the trip on the way 
to Waltham to pick up more foam

	  I know I am not supposed to be here, and this isn't my
	  DECghost writing, but what with the DEC honcho's muffing
	  things up, [so what's new?] I have been given a new
	  lease on my DEC life until 8th Jan, 1993. I was served a
	  60 day notice this past Monday, so they weren't fooling
	  me when they said the group was being disbanded.
    
	  We will be moved to a different office in MRO - 3 to a
	  cubicle - so I can get to check my mail and read notes.
    
	  I will be Phoenix next week, and expect to hook up with
	  ol' desert rat himself. If there is stuff someone here
	  wants to send him, or letters to carry, I'll be more
	  than happy to oblige.

	  I was figuring I would meet Al as an ex-DECkie, but that
	  will have to wait until next time.

	  Sorry to hear that Jimbo is also headed out the door.
	  Will catch up with the local RCers at one of the
	  assorted meetings...

ajai
Wed Nov 11 16:31:03 1992

    Jim,
    
    it's really sad to see you leaving this file, even if it's just for a
    while. I've enjoyed your entries in both files and learned a lot of it.
    And now that you are getting hooked on electrics, we will only read as
    much as someone else cares to put in.
    
    I'm looking forward to meeting you a couple more times before leaving
    the States and hope to stay in touch,
    
    Hartmut

Thanks Hartmut. I've learned a lot from my exposure to you and your Race Cat 
and Fiesta. The latest Tower order brought my Astro 25 Cobalt last night and
I'm looking forward to giving it a try. The agencies keep calling with job
reqs within DEC so my absence might be short. Hopefully I'll get some building 
time in.

I'm sure we'll meet a few more times (I still have some magazines and a charger
8^) and hopefully again in the future after you head home (you are going home? 
8^)

As with every contract transition, it's difficult to leave the friends behind
but I've always had the electronic friends of the notesfile from contract to 
contract. That makes it more difficult since I've gotten to know more people 
better over the 4+ years. I hope I've contributed something back to a notesfile 
that has been a major source of information to me. Anyone having questions on 
any of my contributions should feel free to write to me or give me a call as 
listed in .1

Well, as I warned you, I'm back. I won't be active in the conference
for a while but I can be reached via Email at the above node.

I wrote this a few days ago and meant to put it in a few days
ago...  An hour or two left as a DECcie

I'll be in Mass in a month for a few weeks, maybe I can meet
some of you

regards

chad
---------------------------------

Hi

Well, a lot of you I know, a lot I don't.  Some 
only through email, some face-to-face.  I appreciate
you all.  I am getting the boot (with my blessings)
and am leaving Dec Friday the 26th of Feb.  I have
enjoyed the last 5 years (and the two summer jobs
before that).  I have learned a lot and have made 
many many new friends.

I will be available through email at

[email protected]
(DECWRL::"[email protected]")

but while I can already start to receive mail
there, I won't actually be there for 4-8 weeks.

I hope to stop by in the MA/NH area for a few weeks
before I head off to Utah.  I hope to see many of
you there.

I will be doing one of the following things
in  Utah (eventually)

1. Grad school in CS

or

2. Working at WordPerfect in the Mac division (maybe?
hopefully?)

or

3. All of the above

or

4. None of the above.

Those are the current plans.  I am looking forward to
seeing my friends and family in Utah, to go flying RC
models there (great area except for the altitude) and
to expand my horizons.

Best of luck to you all and DEC

regards
Chad

Chad Leigh
1954 S 2600 E
Salt Lake City, Utah  84108

Just got off the phone with Chad. We're going to try to get together 
this weekend. He just bought a Mac Duo and is busy programming some 
stuff on that. He mentioned to say hi to everyone in the notesfile.

    If the weekends decent, let me know if you go out flying anyplace.
    We need to get some practice in before Al's contest.

I'm supposed to head down to Mansfield to fly power with a college friend
on saturday if the weather is good. Current plan is to take a Gremlin.
The Alcyone sits on my bench waiting to have the covering finished. I'm
running out of time before the contest.

I'm letting the Snowman borrow my backup 2 meter to use up at Al's 
contest. If the weather is good he'll probably head out somewhere.

Well, this is it.  On Monday afternoon I'm scheduled to be executed
for various unspecified but hideous crimes.  I intend to be a
contractor in the afterlife, so I may return to haunt you in the
visage of Son Of Quik Stik.  Its been real guys, and I'll miss your
company.  I intend to keep flying though, and will not be further than
my AOL address of [email protected].

    
    
    Maybe some of you have heard, those of you that haven't soon will but
    the manufacturing plant in Augusta, Maine announced today that SCI is
    in the process of buying us out, lock, stock, and module. 
    Within this month I will be saying good-bye to alot of names and a
    couple of faces. (Sorry Jim! 8*)) It has been enjoyable in this notes
    file and I can't begin to tell "ya'll" what I've learned.
    I'll be in before I leave to update everyone on the Long-ez and my
    Mitchell Superwing Ultralight. Who knows someday you will see a plane
    in the air at your local field and no one has control of it could it 
    be MEEEEE!!!!!! Helled if I know????? 8^))))))
    
    Bruce
     

    Bruce, sorry to hear you're leaving.  Good luck in your future
    endeavors.  Y'a know, if our numbers keep dwindling like this, 
    eventually the moderator will be the entire conference.
    
    BTW Bruce, did you ever live/work for DEC in northern NJ?  Seems to me
    I recognize your name from back when I worked in Parsippanny.
    
    
    Regards,
    Joe

    
    No, it's another B. M. We are always getting each others mail.  
    
    
    
    Bruce