Merely having fun can make one a legend
By Jim Buxton
As seen in the January 2011 issue of Model Aviation.
Ron Wittman (L) stands in front of the Tustin Blimp Hangar with the author, who holds the model he used to break Ron’s 35-year-old Indoor Glider records in the fall of 2009.
Ron Wittman is an FF Indoor Hand-Launched Glider legend. He set the high-ceiling record at the Tustin Blimp Hangar in California on February 18, 1973. In so doing, he accomplished what many claimed to be an impossible feat: he threw a Category III (now Category IV, for unlimited ceiling…