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Jacksonville--Early Seventies

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Kent Rogers:
Those models were awesome to a newbie

Hello Les

EddyR:
 Hi Less
   You will remember this guy and my self taken in late 1970's at Jacksonville Fl.  Joe Mead was the contest director for many years at Jacksonville.
 In this picture I had not entered a contest in many years. The last one was in NYS around late 1960's and that was FF. I showed up at Jacksonville late and first round was done. They looked at my very old AAsr and thought let him fly as no one new me. They gave me one flight and as you can see I won.  Soon after this Bill Rich moved to Florida and he and I became great friends going to contest all over the south together.
 Fun days from a long time ago.
 Ed Ruane      aka EddyR

Seems I forgot photo so here it is

Les McDonald:
 I probably flew more official flights during my short career in front of Joe Mead than any other judge. He was a super nice guy and I only wished I had spent more time around him. I'm pretty sure this is the only photo I've ever seen of Joe. Thanks for posting it Eddy.

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