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I can see why Turf would be under pressure from escalating land prices
but Estrella is bracketed east and west by a pair of large, active and
likely toxic dump sites which, hopefully, will protect them (at least
from the developers).

Ray Warshaw
1LK

There is also the more important question of whether or not we'll even
have anywhere to launch in the foreseeable future. The newly re-
opened Turf Soaring and Estrella Sailport are under pressure from
development and I'm not hopeful that they will have a long future.

Mike

On Nov 12, 1:28 pm, 1LK wrote:
I can see why Turf would be under pressure from escalating land prices
but Estrella is bracketed east and west by a pair of large, active and
likely toxic dump sites which, hopefully, will protect them (at least
from the developers).

Ray: They'll have to move a bunch of wrecked cars, trucks and buses,
that's for sure. But take a look at Estrella on Google Earth and
you'll see that there is a lot of empty land around.

While you're on Google, see if you can spot the various types of
glider at Estrella that day. The photo was taken late on a Saturday
morning early last year and there were a bunch of ASA pilots rigging
for a contest, including me with my Discus 2.

Mike