US Hawks Hang Gliding Association

From: craig muhonen
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2019 7:01 PM
Subject: 1973-4
Original TAF (Telluride Air Force): members: Joe Kray, Dennis Stenslien, Gary Gross, Clint Wolf, Robert St.Once, Greg Henzie, Don Dusatko, Jim Lincoln, Jim Guest, Jeff Campbell, Mitchell Stanfield, David Stanfield. TAF Administrator/Secretary - Christine Stanfield/Dusatko.
VIP Visiting Pilots: Bob Keeler, Rob Kells, Jack Schroeder, John Heiney, Dave Cronk, Dave Beardslee, Dan Racinelli, Steve Moyes.
VIP Guest: Col. Chuck Yeager
Special Guest : driver, carrier, launch specialist and shot buyer at the bar.... ha....Craig (munch) Muhonen
Might make for a good trivia pursuit question.

Wasn't sure where to post this.

In 1891, Telluride's L.L. Nunn joined forces with George Westinghouse to build the Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant, an alternating current power plant, near Telluride. (Nunn's home can be found at the corner of Aspen and Columbia Streets; next door is the home he purchased for the "pinheads"[citation needed] to study hydro-electric engineering.) The plant supplied power to the Gold King Mine 3.5 miles away. This was the first successful demonstration of long-distance transmission of industrial-grade alternating current power and used two 100-hp Westinghouse alternators, one working as a generator producing 3,000 volt, 133 Hertz, single-phase AC, and the other used as an AC motor.[10] This hydroelectric AC power plant predated the Westinghouse plant at Niagara Falls by 4 years.[10] Nunn and his brother Paul built power plants in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Mexico, and the Ontario Power plant at Niagara Falls on the Canadian side. Nunn developed a keen interest in education as part of his electrical power companies, and in conjunction with Cornell University built the Telluride House at Cornell in 1909 to educate promising students in electrical engineering. Later, Nunn along with Charles Walcott, started the non-profit Telluride Association. Nunn founded Deep Springs College in 1917. All of Nunn's educational endeavors are going strong today. Each year, the Telluride Tech Festival honors Nunn, inventor Nikola Tesla, and Westinghouse, along with current day technology and science leaders.

The mission of the Telluride Air Force is to preserve the flying here in this area far long after we're just memories ... of those old guys that used to jump off the hills here.