The Flying Lines newsletter has been published since May 1979.
Below are links to PDF documents of back issues.
The back issues will be uploaded gradually. It's a time-consuming process
to scan and process the old printed newsletters into the PDF form, so this
will take a while. Please be patient, and meanwhile, enjoy the issues currently
available.
Note: Image quality and download time may vary on early issues, as
your editor searches for the best combination of file size and quality.
Printed copies of many editions of the Flying Lines newsletter are available for a nominal fee. If you would like to order printed back issues, contact Flying Lines Newsletter Editor Mike Hazel.
No. 1, May 1979 -- The first issue. Includes complete results of first Drizzle Circuit winter contest series.
No. 2, June 1979 -- Complete results of the 1979 Northwest Regionals, stunt column by Rich Schaper, Navy Carrier by Orin Humphries.
No. 3, July 1979 -- Results of AAA summer speed and racing meet in Eugene, combat contest in Redmond, Wash., columns on speed by Mike Hazel and sport flying by Chris Genna, and article on propeller design by Scott Newkirk.
No. 214, March-April 2006 -- Ron Salo obituary, The Real Dirt on Lustre Kote, Floyd Carter on Old-Time Stunt, and more.
Would you like to help the Flying Lines online editor with the back issues project? The process of scanning, converting to PDF and uploading to the web is very time-consuming with the equipment available to your editor, and it will take years for the job to be completed at the current pace. If you would like to help speed up this process, please e-mail the editor. What you would need to be able to do the job is a computer, a scanner (preferably one that will read 14-inch legal-size documents) and the software to combine the scans into a single document that can be converted to PDF files. The editor is currently accomplishing this task on a Macintosh running 10.2.4, Epson scanner, using PhotoShop Elements and AppleWorks for the processing. You may have alternate equipment and software that would do the job. Part of what makes the job so time-consuming is that the editor's scanner reads only 12-inch pages, and the first several years of FL were published on 14-inch pages, so the process requires a double-scan and photo merge to make the single pages. If you have a 14-inch scanner, the process can be much quicker. I hope to hear from someone who can help with this project!
This page was upated Jan. 4, 2007