where is Leesburg. Was that named after General Lee

Leesburg is 35 miles north of Orlando. It is on US 441 and US 27. If you placed a pin in the map of Florida exactly in the center of the state, you would put the pin in Leesburg. No, it was not named for Gen. Robert E. Lee. It was named for another family who's name was Lee. We are in Lake County, which was so named due to it having 14,000 named Lakes within it's boundaries. We are full. No vancancies. Stay Home. No Room. Don't have any space available. Try Dallas. I will make you a deal on some folks from Michigan.....Buy 1, get 4 free...All of them have Blue Hair, and they all drive in the fast lane, at 15 MPH under the posted speed limit. They all look through the steering wheel when they drive. They mostly all drive Lincoln Town Cars, Grand Marquis, Cadillac Sedan DeVilles, and none of them know how to park. Have good insurance, should you decide to visit.[:@]

Bill, AMA 4720
WACO Brotherhood #1

ps...this part of Florida is known as God's waiting room. More ambulance calls here than anywhere else. The Funeral parlors do a land rush business. Highest mortality rate in the country.

Hey Stickbuilder, How did you know what I looked like and what I drive. In MIchigan we drive 15mph faster than the posted speed. Gee with my big Lincoln I should feel right at home.

We've got plenty of snow up here in Canada.

Hey mapcinq--on my way with Stickbuilder and the DeHavilland Beaver. Now treat Stickbuilder nice--he's from Florida ya know.

Here is some pictures of my private winter airfield--taken from my driveway. Just a little more snow and get out the planes.

I remember a trip from Mich to Deland,Fla MANY years ago. As I drove accross the the Fla border and saw the "Welcome" sign I had to slam on the brakes. It was like the traffic had stopped in the middle of the highway from there South. Old folks just LOOKING at the warm I guess.

Just enjoying the sights. Don't want to tick of the Floridians.

Nobody is really from Florida.

There are some nice, and I mean nice, RC fields in Florida. I've visited a few while down there. I own a condo/villa in Bradenton and head to several fields within about a half hour driving time. Nice people, nice fields.

CGr.

Here ( Quebec, Trois-Rivieres ) I have three feet of snow already And the winter start officially on December 21 ! If I could just finish my Super Sportster 40 or my Neptune to fly off the snow....

Séb

Hey SebM
Start building and quit hanging out at RCU--only kidding---I don't want that much snow--just enought to cover the ground good. 7-8 inches would be fine.

I have some problem with both airplane so I'm a bit stuck now ;( With the Neptune I have lot's of difficulty understanding the $%& manual. I'd love to find a tutorial with clear pictures at every step. It's like they assume you know where to install most component but I have only assembled one ARF so far so that's not my case. Because of this I have decided to assemble the Super Sportster first but I am missing 2-3 small parts but really required. I should be able to fix this situation this week-end and continue the work. Of course we will have snow here until april but I hate to see that beautiful snow covering and not being able to do nothing.

as you can see by the pictures I posted, we don't have a lot of snow yet. But it is coming. I have a sea dancer with a mag 91 4s that I like to fly--looks pretty taking off in the snow.

The DeHavilland Beaver on floats (the one pictured next to the messages is nice looking in the air with those floats hanging down.

Wrong again round eyes. The wife is really from Florida.

Bill, AMA 4720
WACO Brotherhood #1

Hey CGRetired you notice that he didn't say he was from Florida. Must be a snowbird also.

Naw, I ain't a snowbird, just a Rednek southern rebel. Married to a gal from the Yankee outpost of Florida.

Bill, AMA 4720
WACO Brotherhood #1

Happiness:

A car with Michigan or Massachusets license plate Northbound on either I-95, or I-75. Loaded up and homeward bound.

CG Retired, What was your Rate, and Rating? And one other thing, did they really have little bitty wheels on the bottoms of your cutters?

Bill, AMA 4720
WACO Brotherhood #1
TMCM (SS) USN (Retired)

ok now i am pissed, that gnat looks so cute with those skis on there i just want to taxi it around for hours on some fresh snow!! im so jealous, but i probably will never leave the family, not only the family, but land that has been in the family for over 150 years! so i can't leave except maybe just to visit.. maybe i could be the opposite of a snow bird and migrate north for the winter.. or maybe north for the spring would be ok

No Stick.. and I'm 5'8". As for rate, well, I retired as CWO4, ELC (Electronics). I turned down E8 for Warrant. I was also in the Navy for four years, Nuclear Polaris Submarines. I got smart and went in the Coast Guard.

I've lived in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Scotland, Japan, Guam, and Illinois. I've traveled in every state except Idaho and North Dakota (yes, including every one of the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska). I've been as far north as a person can go and not get wet (Barrow Alaska). And I"ve been as far south as a person can go without hitting ice.

Impressed yet? No?

Well, i've crossed the equator and the international date line, at the same time three different times: in the air, on the surface, and under water. I've straddled the Prime Meridian, spent time in Norway, Sweeden, Austria, Canada, Nova Scotia, Pureto Rico, St Martin, St John, Aruba, St Croix, Bonaire, Grenada, St Kitts, Mexico, Cuba, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, England, Iwo Jima, France, Portugal, Ireland, Panama Canal Zone, Equador, Chile, Galapagos Islands, and Easter Island.

I also own a condo in Florida as well as a townhouse in New Jersey.

Now are you impressed?

We may be a small service, but I don't think the Navy has law enforcement powers (Title 14) on the high seas as well as in all of the 50 states. We do, by law.

The Coast Guard gets around as well.

And, to keep this on topic, I have not as yet flown on snow, but I will this year.

CG Retired.

Warrants were my favorites , they always treated us hard stipepers & non coms well. You did subs ? and they call me Insane .lol!
Sry CG I,m a ground pounder , 13 yankee, Army. I`d rather jump out of a perfectly good running airplane than get close to the water.

Insane,
13 yankee. what is that. Artillery something or other!!! I did a little time as a gun bunny (13B) until I switched over to supply.

I had a buddy in the navy and said that he just loved being on ships. I told him I would stick to the army because when my truck broke down I could just get out and walk!!!! Kind of hard to do that in a ship!!!!

Ken

Well, odly enough, I did spend a tour on a Coast Guard ship, that was 77 - 79 on the USCGC Comanche out of Eureka, California. It was probably the worst, and the best, two years of my career. Worst in the fact that we patroled the Pacific, which was not, by any stretch of the imagination, peaceful. Best because it was independent duty (I was the only Electronics Technician) and I had to make sure everything worked.

When we had our refresher training in San Diego with the Navy, they were surprized that a ship with all the electronics on board as we had, only had one ET on board. But it was as much fun as it was a pain in the butt. We were out for 10 days, in for 10 days, out for 10 days... and so on. When we were in, we were on 2 hour recall, and often got recalled and headed out.

But, after that, I spent most of my time on terra-firma (land) at various engineering commands within the Coast Guard. I even spent a four year tour with the National Weather Service (Mississippi and trips to South America via Panama Canal Zone). Neat stuff.

Japan was Loran C duty. One year on a 3/4 square mile island, 800 miles from the nearest land. Interesting is a good way to describe that. (Google Earth coordinates: 24 17 18.20 N, 153 58 44.22 E ) You can cut and paste that into Google earth if you wish.

Anyway, I didn't much enjoy going to sea, but worked well with those that did..

CGr.

Hey Ken
13 Charlie is a forward observer , 13 Yankee is the same but a little more refined .

Forward Observer!! Ok.. you got my respect.. always did, but moreso now!!