Archive for May, 2006

BORACAY!

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

For a guy who works in the Travel Industry, I hardly do any full-scale flying. Naturally, its hard to forget the circumstances that led to my first plane ride - which was also the first time I landed in Boracay.

Announcements went around like wildfire that a contest would be held at Baradas Airfield. This was […]

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

It was in November 1997 when I was invited by Robert Mamonluk to do some flying with him at Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac. I didn’t know anyone from the area, but I was eager to do some flying with my glider. So off we went.

I understood that we were to be the guest of another new […]

MEMORABLE SOARING MOMENTS

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

There are two incidents which I would refer to as my best flights ever with a glider, for no other reason that I enjoyed myself immensely: the more memorable of the two was my longest flight. It was at Timog Park Phase 4, Angeles City. I don’t recall the specific date, but I do remember […]

OLD SOARING DAYS

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

I began my adventures into radio controlled flight in February of 1997. I had lost contact with all of the old hobby shops I once knew. Most had already closed down. Desperate to build planes, I went to Polymer Philippines to take lessons in fiberglass construction methods. It was there, that the instructor had directed […]