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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/2/2006 3:39:29 PM   
intimidator_md



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From: Oshkosh, WI, USA
Status: offline 		I started at 14. Living in Oshkosh with EAA in my backyard I had the opportunity to attend many youth programs including the EAA/AMA academy. I got started then and have been hooked since. Great training from very experienced pilots and got my first plane a Lanier Indicator from the program. I learned to fly on the PT-20 and 40. Finally made the switch to electrics and am now moving into jets, mainly edf. Now I'm 24 with a fulltime job and making some good money. Life is good!

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/17/2006 10:53:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		im 13 and just starting out... i built my own C/L plane and I think I flew it 10-12 times, got about 2 pints of fuel through it and then the control line snapped and it did a nose dive...amazingly the engine still runs but everything else can go to the burn pile...when I was 11 I had an electric ariplane and I hit a tree...the wing snapped in half and the decals were holding the wing together...it still flew for a while til the sticker came off then it dropped like a rock

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/17/2006 5:58:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		I guess I started when I was about 9 or 10 with a COX .049 P-51 control line. I'm 46 now,........haven't gotten any better either! LOL LOL

Getting ready to start on a Palmer 132.84" C-130 Hercules,.....I wonder if that will work on a control line?,...hummmmm?

Troy

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/17/2006 5:58:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I started last year when I was 13. Now I will be 15 next month.


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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/17/2006 7:42:38 PM   
flying skunks


 

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/19/2006 10:38:46 AM   
wavy777


 

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From: Oxfordshire, UNITED KINGDOM
Status: offline 		I started when I was 11, with a precedent high boy and OS40. I'm now 36 and still as mad about RC planes, but only marginally a better pilot than i was 25 years ago!

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/20/2006 6:59:50 PM   
spikeone


 

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From: Gates Mills, OH, USA
Status: offline 		Started at 4 with balsa gliders. Control line at 10. First r/c at 13. Now in 40's and still building. Great hobby for life!!

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/27/2006 8:40:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Started at 13 flying micro helicopters(Ikarus piccolo). Now 15, Almost done building a Top Flight Cessna 182, full lighting, scale opening luggage door (with the light controls, receiver switch, fuel valve), Balsa USA 1/4 scale floats on order. I also have a .20 Cub thats going on GP floats. Just got a Futaba 7C for christmas too

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 12/29/2006 3:55:42 AM   
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From: georgetown, TX, USA
Status: offline 		It hasn't been too long but I started at about age 9 and now I'm 16. Started with a gentle lady glider, then went on to some other various aircraft. The plane that really helped me was the GWS Tigermoth. I now have a Yellow Aircraft Sukhoi SU-31, I scratch built a 1/4 scale Team MiniMAX based upon my fathers, a Slow Poke (the second one I built, the third one I've flown), had my favorite plane a Great Planes Slow Poke (unfortunately had to call it quits after the second crash and four years of flying.), Hangar 9 Corsair, GWS A-10 and Zero, multiple other foamies that I have scratch built to test various thing such as forward swept wings and flying wings, an OV-10 Bronco, A-7 Corsair prop jet, and many other models. Currently working o a 1/4 scale Howard DGA! But actually my main project right now is my real plane. I have my own Pitts S-1C!!! Should be flying it next year! I have already soloed gliders and powered planes and currently have 220 hours total flight time. I plane on being in the Navy, but I'll end my rambling here.

SLICK

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 1/2/2007 9:54:53 PM   
jokr420


 

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From: huntington beach, CA, USA
Status: offline 		started flying when i was 22, although i was racing 1/10 scale trucks at the local track, got out of that too boring then started flying planes again.

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 1/2/2007 10:24:54 PM   
wingman371


 

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From: Indianapolis, IN, USA
Status: offline 		I started as many did with plastic models, began Rockets when I was still in grade school ending up with rc cars till my late teens. Started flying in Japan in 1990 and have'nt stopped yet. Allot of my flying came from the military piloting 1/9th scale remote controled moving areal targets (RCMAT). If you have never had the opportunity of getting your plane shot down it is a hoot. Have also been on the shooting end as well, just as fun (liniking to crash discussion forum). OK I digress, became involved with scale while living in Oregon and flying with some great scale modelers, Dick Hansen, Dick Heigning and several other of the Proctor Guys.

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 1/3/2007 12:45:30 AM   
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From: Palm Coast, FL, USA
Status: offline 		I am 44 and have been building planes for 3 years and now. Scott

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 2/8/2007 2:07:22 PM   
xtim



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From: winford, UNITED KINGDOM
Status: offline 		i started when i was 10 with a gws slow stick but it never survived me

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 2/8/2007 3:08:20 PM   
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From: Miramar, FL, USA
Status: offline 		Flew my first at 10, really got into the hobby a year ago, 15 now.

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RE: Survey-Youngest to Oldest Pilots - 2/8/2007 4:21:16 PM   
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From: Batesville, MS, USA
Status: offline 		I started when I was 5, I am now 34. I have flown every thing form a glider to jet. I now fly a 40% carden edge and my first kit to build and put on the market a 26cc edge.Modeling has given me the love and taken me to flying real