Re: Psubers in So Cal ?

["Stephen V. Buerkle" <sbuerkle@adelphia.net>]

Hi everyone.  I've been on this list for about 6 weeks now "listening" to 
the dialogue.  What a great group!  I surfed the Net for two or three years 
looking for info on p-subs before becoming aware of this group.  It's 
amazing how relieving it is to find out that I'm not the ONLY one thinking 
about P-subs.  Friends and family have suffered through my interest and 
discussion of the subject for several years now and I'm just happy to find 
a group of compatriots.  Specific to Alan's question, I had a thought that 
may have been discussed before, but I'll bring it up anyway.  I'm a pilot 
flying a Piper Cherokee Six and have been interested for years in building 
a kitplane using composites.  As I'm sure many of you know, there's a very 
large national organization called the Experimental Aircraft Association 
(EAA) which, among other things, sponsors the Oshkosh, WI fly-in in late 
July every year.  This group thrives because of its many chapters in each 
state.  Wouldn't such an organizational structure be of even more value to 
p-subbers given the difficult and expensive construction and operational 
process involved?   I live just outside Philadelphia, PA and would love to 
meet with anyone else within reasonable driving distance to possibly 
collaborate on a two-man sub.  I imagine that there are other locations 
where P-subbers may live fairly close to each other and could collaborate 
or simply share info and that this group could form EAA-like chapters to 
cultivate this process.  Obviously the meeting of minds in cyberspace 
accomplishes this to a degree, but there's no substitute for a helping hand 
when you have a difficult portion of the sub to construct or someone else 
to simply share the cost and the operational duties.  Just a thought..... 
Best regards - Steve Buerkle.


At 01:56 AM 3/2/99 , you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>Are there any Psubers in the So. California area ?
>
>I live in the big somewhat smelly, definitely over crowded city of Los
>Angeles.
>
>If so drop me a line.
>
>Alan Long
>Subview