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Professional/Technical
See my resume here.
Hobbies/Interests
As you have probably already guessed, R/C airplanes are a hobby of mine. I started out with R/C cars, my last one being the old Tamiya Rough Rider. A year or two later I took the 2 channel, 2 stick radio out of the car and put it into a Hobby Shack Spirit of '76 trainer glider. I learned to fly that summer on a slope in Thousand Oaks, CA. After about a year, I lost interest in slope soaring for some reason. I think I was just bored with the Spirit. Some time after this, I was at Torrey Pines glider port, having just walked up the cliff after a surf session at Blacks Beach. I noticed a guy flying a P-51 Mustang sloper and I thought it was just one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. After asking him some questions about it, I decided that I was going to get back into slope soaring and get a P-51. I saw that Hobby Shack had a trainer out called the Ridge Runt, and I decided to buy to make the transition from rudder-elevator to aileron-elevator control. Once I learned to fly ailerons, I got a Vortech Mustang and stuck a "real" radio in it (a Futaba 4ch). A few years later, I bought my first power plane, and got hooked on that. I've been doing both slope and power flying ever since.
My other main hobby was surfing. I say was because I haven't actually been out in about a year. I surfed a lot in San Diego, most often at La Jolla Shores, Sunset Cliffs, and occasionally OB, PB, and Mission Beach. I liked Blacks a lot too, but it always seemed to crowded. Up in Ventura/Los Angeles County, I usually surfed County Line or Zeros.
I've also dabbled a bit in photography and some writing. In June of last year, I wrote a magazine article for Radio Control Soaring Digest, in which I reviewed the Birdworks Rubber Duck slope glider. The article appeared in the July 1995 RCSD, and one of my pictures was chosen as the cover shot for that issue.
Finally, I took a flying lesson in a full scale Janus sailplane in 1996. I've been thinking about getting more involved in this in the future.
This page came about a few years because I wanted to learn HTML, and I had a whole lot of glider photos laying around. It didn't take very long to figure out a theme for it!.
Well, I hoped you enjoyed your visit to my web page. If you fly R/C planes, I hope you found it interesting. If you are not into R/C at the moment, I hope that I piqued your interest at least a little bit in what is a really fun hobby.
Brett JaffeeComments, questions, and suggestions are always welcome jaffee@earthlink.net
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