A very inspirational friend of mine, Alain, told me the best model P-38 joke ever.
He was 3 times the aerobat pilot I ever was, although he couldn't glue a canopy on very well
After living here for several years watching me wrangle P-38's, he moved to CA to do his post-doc work in something I can't pronounce and joined a large semi-urban flight club out there.
"Mark," he reported to me on a return visit, "I'm surprised to find that RC P-38 pilots in California fly them just the same as you guys back here in Iowa. You bring your planes out to the field on the prettiest days, you spend an hour prepping, then you spend two hours standing on your head tuning the engines. Then you pack up and go home!"
