Who we are
A Charity by Pilots, for Pilots.
Current Officers:
President, – Douglas Sharpe
Vice President, USHPA Liaison – Mark Forbes
Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair – Greg Lawless
Secretary, Operations Committee Chair – Russ Locke
Current Voting Tustees:
Trustee, Douglas Sharpe
Trustee, Bill Bolosky
Trustee, Greg Lawless
Trustee, Zac Majors
Trustee, Gus Johnson
Trustee, Russ Locke
Trustee, Riss Estes
Executive Director: – Connie Work
The calling of the Foundation takes the efforts of more than just a handful of people. Fortunately, the Foundation also benefits from a team of volunteers who lend the Foundation their time and skills. The Foundation needs help of all types (e.g. technical, legal, financial, artistic, and true-believers of all backgrounds). If you can volunteer to help preserve free flight for future generations, please contact the Foundation.
Current Subcommittee Contacts:
Grant Committee, Randy Leggett grants@foundadationforfreeflight.org
Finance, Greg Lawless & Bill Bolosky
finance@foundationforfreeflight.orgMarketing & Development, Zac Majors
marketing@foundationforfreeflight.orgOperations, Russ Locke
operations@foundationforfreeflight.org
Volunteers
The Foundation for Free Flight is especially grateful to the following
individuals who have donated their time and skills to preserve Free Flight:
John Greynald - Grants Committee member
TRUSTEES
President
Doug Sharpe
Phone: 978-318-9714
Cell: 508-423-6784
douglas_sharpe@foundationforfreeflight.org
Doug comes from an engineering background and lives in Massachusetts.
He has been a hang glider pilot since 1974 and a paraglider pilot since
1989. Doug has been involved with the Foundation for Free Flight since
1999 and was one of the main influences in revitalizing it. His home flying
sites are in the New England area. Doug was a director of the USHPA for
5 years representing Region 8. He brings experience working with other
non-profit boards and strives to help develop the Foundation into a major
contributor to sport flying.
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Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair
Gregg Lawless
Phone: 858-654-1802
Cell: 619-980-5566
Fax: 858-636-5770
greg_lawless@foundationforfreeflight.org
Greg comes to FFF as a past president of USHPA. He has been involved with
the Free Flight Community for many many years.
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Trustee, Marketing and Development Committee Chair
Zac Majors:
805-708-5100
zac_majors@foundationforfreeflight.org
Zac has been active with the USHPA Competition Committee. He was elected to the board 04/2011. He has been a force in the creation of the new FFF National Teams Targeted Funds.
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Trustee
Gus Johnson
908-652-6485
gus_johnson@foundationforfreeflight.org
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Trustee
Bill Bolosky
425-222-7702
bill_bolosky@foundationforfreeflight.org
Bill comes from a business and engineering background and resides in Washington
State. He is a past president of the USHPA and current member of the USHPA
Board representing region one. He has been a Hang Glider Pilot for many
years. Bill brings a wealth of experience to the Foundation with his involvement
with the USHPA and national issues that face our sport. He has been very
instrumental in the last few years in promoting the Foundation to the
USHPA board and membership and has been extremely helpful in coordinating
efforts between the two organizations. Bill also chairs the Foundation's
Bylaws Subcommittee.
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Trustee
Riss Estes
512-329-0790
riss_estes@foundationforfreeflight.org
Riss is an entrepreneur with a business and marketing background residing
in Austin, Texas. He has been addicted to paragliding since 2000 and travels
as much as possible to pursue his passion, especially when it’s
off-season in Texas. In addition to serving as a Trustee for the Foundation
he also serves as a Director for the USHPA and is its current Vice President.
Serving the Foundation and the USHPA is Riss’ way of giving back
to the sport he loves.
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Trustee, Operations Committe Chair
Russ Locke
978-318-9714
russ_locke@foundationforfreeflight.org
Russ comes from a business background and resides in central California.
He has been a Hang Glider pilot for 26 years. Russ has been a Trustee
with the Foundation since 2004. Russ brings a tremendous wealth of experience
and years of work with the USHPA as both a director and a member of USHPA’s
Executive Committee. He was instrumental in the initial establishment
of the Foundation in the early 1980s.
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Executive Director
Connie Work
559-338-2621
connie_work@foundationforfreeflight.org
Connie accepted the position of Executive Director for the Foundation
in the Spring of 2006. She also continues as a member of the Grants Committee
which she joined when she first became an active Foundation volunteer
in 2004. Hang gliding became her sport of choice in 1982 and served as
a director of the USHPA in the early 1990's. She owned and operated the
Dunlap Flight Park in Dunlap, California, for 20 years. She is dedicated
to the Foundation's goal to save and develop flying sites throughout the
US.
PAST-TRUSTEE OFFICERS
Officer, Vice President
Mark Forbes
541-760-3231
mark_forbes@foundationforfreeflight.org
Mark comes from an engineering background and lives in western Oregon.
He is a biwingual pilot and has been flying since 1994. Mark brings a
strong operations background to the FFF. He is also a USHPA board member,
the USHPA Treasurer, and chairs the USHPA Insurance and Elections committees.
Mark typically flies along the beach or one of the many inland coastal
sites of Oregon with a little airtime in Florida and Southern California;
Australia, too.
PAST-TRUSTEES
Past-Trustee, Grant Committee Chair
Randy Leggett
610-258-6066
randy_leggett@foundationforfreeflight.org
Randy comes from a business background and resides in eastern Pennsylvania.
He has been a Hang Glider Pilot for 24 years and recently became a licensed
sailplane glider pilot. He has been involved with the Foundation since
1999 and was one of the main influences in its revitalization. Randy has
been helpful in the Foundation’s restructuring and expanding its
mission to include site preservation. His home flying site is Kirkridge,
PA. Randy is a past President of the USHPA, and FFF.
Past-Trustee
Stephen Onstad
505-474-6419
stephen_onstad@foundationforfreeflight.org
Stephen comes from a financial information technology and management background.
He has been a paraglider pilot for 12 years. He became a trustee in 2001
and served as the Foundation’s Treasurer until 2003 when he accepted
the position of President. Stephen worked closely with Jim Maze, the previous
USHGF president, to help guide the Foundation though a needed restructuring
phase from 2001 to 2005. He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
where everyday is Saturday.
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