<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 12, 2006, at 7:25 PM, <A href="mailto:Rcmaster199@aol.com">Rcmaster199@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/12/2006 8:11:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, <A href="mailto:glmiller3@cox.net">glmiller3@cox.net</A> writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face="Arial">Hi Ron,<BR><BR>Whatever happpened to Rhett? I flew pattern back in the 70's in that <BR>circuit--I was flying novice and advanced back then- when Rhett, Ron Chidgie <BR>(sp), Don Lowe, Dave Brown and other now legendary names were flying...I <BR>actually won my class in your contest a couple of years back then...Anyway, <BR>I thought I saw Rhett in Dallas in the early 90's...I was just sport flying <BR>but I thought I saw him come into a hobby shop there...never saw him flying <BR>and haven't heard a word about him since the 70's - I sure did like to <BR>watch him fly back then!</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>He returned to pattern briefly in the late 80s with a borrowed plane. He flew in my club contest, back in the Ft Worth area, 2 years running as I recall. Then he left the pattern scene and that was the last I heard</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Rhett actually didn't retire then. He borrowed an airplane from Ron Chidgey and came to the 1991 F3A Team Selection Finals that I CD'd. He did not make the finals. I think he still lives in Texas. I haven't seen him since. His father, also called Rhett still lives in/near Tallahassee, FL.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron Van Putte</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>