Campgem, Lnewqban, Mike 109 and High Plains thanks to all of you and others for the support. My return to controlline which I thought was over for me was enabled by that twenty foot concrete circle you see in this vidio. I purchased the materials and mud and the club provided the labor to do the job and it has been wonderful. I even got in two nice flights this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JohnBuck...31/T3b8ndVIhII

Mike I would be honored if your friend would catch some inspiration from this and get back to flying.

The old timer you asked about is a Kerswap from plans and I flew it for years with an OS .20 and even with coke bottle floats but now it is flying with an MVVS .15 diesel.

Flying out of a wheelchair for many folks can be a big help. A wheelchair is much easier than a ordinary chair especially if you can use your feet a bit and use no foot boards, its easy to twist around with your feet which cannot be done with a fixed chair.

Probably the biggest problem when flying in a wheelchair for some reason folks tend to walk in front of you when you are flying and that can get dicy

If you have difficulty standing for any length of time, using a real wheelchair will definately improve your flying if you remove the foot boards.

When I was still active in three pole Q500 at Speedworld and the basin or whittier Narrows my support equipment consisted to two wheelchairs and the scooter in the picture. I would drag one wheelchair out to the starting line for the day which the flagman loved having it to use most of the time. Then I would use the other chair in the pits. For my heats I loaded the startline box on the floorboard and carried my quickee one handed riding out to the startline and changed into the other chair for the race and repeted this proscess for however many rounds there were.

John