User:Marklibelle

I'm a retired airline captain who spent most of my career in long-haul international operations. Avid sailplane pilot, instructor and designated pilot examiner. Free-flight model airplane builder since 1967. Own and fly a 1967 Glasflügel Hutter H-301 Libelle. Married since 1997 to another sailplane pilot and instructor. Serious amateur photographer. Enjoy backpacking—Desolation Wilderness is only an hour away from our home in Reno. Spent 27 years as a draftsman for a railroad enthusiast publisher, working at home between airline trips. Member of the Industrial Workers of the World. Born and reared in the San Francisco Bay Area, educated at UC Berkeley and the University of the State of New York. Currently commuting between Reno and Houston while working on a series of books on soaring and other topics.