Who we are

A Charity by Pilots, for Pilots.

Current Trustees and Officers:
President – Randy Leggett
Vice President, Grant Committee Chair – Douglas Sharpe
Treasurer, Finance Committee Chair – Bill Bolosky
Secretary – Stephen Onstad

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 – Douglas Sharpe grants@foundadationforfreeflight.org

Finance – Bill Bolosky
finance@foundationforfreeflight.org

Marketing & Development – Riss Estes
marketing@foundationforfreeflight.org

Operations – 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:

Jennifer Beach - Operations Committee member
John Greynald - Grants Committee member
Jonathan Kelley - Marketing Committee member

TRUSTEES

President
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.

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Vice-President, Grant Committee Chair
Doug Sharpe
978-318-9714
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
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
Gregg Lawless

Phone: 858-654-1802

Cell: 619-980-5566

Fax: 858-636-5770
greg_lawless@foundationforfreeflight.org

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Trustee, Marketing and Development Committee Chair
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
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.

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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.

Non Trustee Officers:

Secratary
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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