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Many of you sent retirement wishes to Larry Kruse as he stepped down from the helm of the F/F Sport column. We thought we’d share some excerpts from those letters and e-mais. –ED


Best wishes to Larry Kruse I can’t say I’m surprised about your retir- ing from writing the FMcolumn. I can’t re- member when it was I didn’t read your words in FM. I’ve subscribed ever since the early to mid ’70s and you were there month after month, year after year. What dedica- tion I thought, because that due date must seem like it comes right after you submit the one you just did. How can one guy come up with something to write about all those years I kept thinking these past years. When does burn out occur.


Finally, I’d like to thank you for the many nice things you have said about my model- ing efforts for many of those years. Those comments have been with me always and to be said by someone of your stature in the modeling community lends more standing to it than maybe I deserve, but Ill take them with much appreciation.


I hope you have even more fun in retire- ment from a monthly column than the fun and enjoyment you’ve had. Modelers every- where will miss you and the information you passed on to all of us instead of the soft ball stuff most of the rest supply. BOB SCHLOSBERG


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Read in FLYING MODELS that you are end- ing your stay as honcho for F/F Sport col- umn. I’ll miss reading all your good stuff. It’s always the first column I look for. I know you’ve been dabbling in R/C. I hope you don’t go completely over to the dark side. Anyway, congratulations on a job will done and enjoy. RUDY KLUIBER


I have been meaning to write to you and thank you for your having been the Free Flight Sport columnist for FLYING MODELS magazine these past many decades. Do know that I have and will continue to en- joyed contributions greatly, as I am confi- dent many other model airplane enthusiasts


have as well. May you continue to build, fly and think about model airplanes and experi- ence all the soul nourishing joy that accom- panies this special hobby, all the more so now without having any deadlines. PAUL GITTEL


I have just received the March issue of


FLYINGMODELS and the first thing I learned is that you are “retiring” from regular monthly publication. I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed your columns over the years. I have been a regular reader for longer than I can remember.


You have provided a valuable service to the modeling community. I hope you enjoy many years of well earned “retirement.” ED O’BRIEN


Although we have met only the once, at the Claremore SAM Champs in 2003, the news in the March 2013 FLYINGMODELS that you are retiring from your F/F column, makes me feel that I have lost a friend. For the past forty years I have enjoyed your column, and it has been my first point of call in each issue. the column has been re- searched and consistently interesting, be- sides being the exception in being well-writ- ten. I have appreciated your advice regarding new items or fresh sources for hard to find items. But perhaps the most appreciated were the pithy aphorisms with which you be- gan each column.


You also proved an inspiration in a most unlikely manner. Last year I completed my doctorate, which took a long time owing to a series of medical problems, after being spurred on by your own doctorate which you undertook later in life.


So thanks again for many years of enjoy- ment, and for illustrating how a column should be compiled and written. I under- stand that you are still intending to con- tribute to FLYING MODELS, and I look for- ward to the reading of your activities in a wider compass. My best wishes accompany this new approach.


DEVON SUTCLIFFE Wellington, New Zealand


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