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**LeadingEdge** · 07-05-2006, 03:54 AM

Article by: Maxon Duncan

Honestly guys, I have a confession to make. I met this guy named Elie at The Nall for the first time a few years back. I cannot pronounce his last name, but that's only because my spanish isn't all that great. Anyways, since then we've become friends. He's become a prolific dude here on our site, and even put a FlyingGiants billboard on the bottom of his big ass Yak - photos that I've used gratuitously on the site. If you haven't met this nut, you're missing out - he's usually the loudest guy at the party, enjoys hovering for 15 minutes straight 100% of the time, and pulls out only when the motor is about to melt. Right up my alley

Anyways, my point in bring this up is that I had a little epiphany tonite after blowing up $300 worth of fireworks. In the past 4 years of doing this online community thing, I've met more good people, and good friends that I would have never bumped into except through this community of ours. Everywhere The FlyingGiants travel, we're always greeted with open arms from people we've never met before. This story repeats itself every weekend with many of the members on FlyingGiants as well. New friends are being made around the world.

For some reason, the online presence in our hobby is incredibly prominent. The way I see it is when we're not flying, we can't loose touch for a second of the day - this kick ass hobby is our passion. I don't want to sound too cheesy here, but I'm incredibly proud to have the opportunity to provide a place to hopefully experience what I have. That's what it's all about folks.

Just a July 4th shout out to you guys. Hope y'alls Independence Day was memorable.

MD

07-05-2006, 03:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
LeadingEdge Super Contributer Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 138	All about The Bro's! Article by: Maxon Duncan Honestly guys, I have a confession to make. I met this guy named Elie at The Nall for the first time a few years back. I cannot pronounce his last name, but that's only because my spanish isn't all that great. Anyways, since then we've become friends. He's become a prolific dude here on our site, and even put a FlyingGiants billboard on the bottom of his big ass Yak - photos that I've used gratuitously on the site. If you haven't met this nut, you're missing out - he's usually the loudest guy at the party, enjoys hovering for 15 minutes straight 100% of the time, and pulls out only when the motor is about to melt. Right up my alley Anyways, my point in bring this up is that I had a little epiphany tonite after blowing up $300 worth of fireworks. In the past 4 years of doing this online community thing, I've met more good people, and good friends that I would have never bumped into except through this community of ours. Everywhere The FlyingGiants travel, we're always greeted with open arms from people we've never met before. This story repeats itself every weekend with many of the members on FlyingGiants as well. New friends are being made around the world. For some reason, the online presence in our hobby is incredibly prominent. The way I see it is when we're not flying, we can't loose touch for a second of the day - this kick ass hobby is our passion. I don't want to sound too cheesy here, but I'm incredibly proud to have the opportunity to provide a place to hopefully experience what I have. That's what it's all about folks. Just a July 4th shout out to you guys. Hope y'alls Independence Day was memorable. MD Attached Thumbnails Last edited by LeadingEdge; 07-05-2006 at 04:00 AM.