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Before R/C - 8/31/2008 8:32:30 PM   
Gary L.



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Status: offline 		What was your hobby before you got in to R/C?
I used to fish tournaments.





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RE: Before R/C - 9/1/2008 1:20:07 AM   
khodges


 

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Status: online 		Depends on the "era" what my hobby was. My first one was motorcycles, thinking of getting another one, although it's been 20 years since I last rode. I'd like to find an old Brit twin, a BSA this time, my first was a Triumph. I roadraced superbikes for three years.

Then it was boats, but I didn't fish. I had three "holes in the water I threw money into", or 6 of the happiest days in a boatowners life, over a period of 10 years. There was a stint in the AF between those two hobbies.

After that was about 5 years of High Power model rockets. Great way to watch your money go up in smoke, I highly recommend it.

And after a intermission of about ten more years, r/c planes.

No wonder I don't have any retirement money saved

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RE: Before R/C - 9/2/2008 2:48:31 PM   
Hossfly



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Gary L.
What was your hobby before you got in to R/C?
I used to fish tournaments.


Beautiful Bass Rig there, Gary. I had one once, 1985 -. Used it about 3 years. Finally sold it as I quit fishing for a long time. Now back into some in-bay saltwater. Jus fishing, not a "Hobby".
"Gary L." My oldest son's name is Gary Lee. Same initials.

I have for as long as I remember been into fishing, hunting, and model airplanes. I did the stick and tissue stuff from 5-6 to 10 years or so. I started flying hand-launch gliders before I was 8 years old (1944), rubber power about then and first spark ignition around 10-11. Flew some CL and CO-2 FF. By 14, I had my first glo engines and was flying CL.
During High School years, I was hard put to find time for school with all the modeling, fishing and hunting to do.
I remember the summer (1953) back between my Junior and Senior High School years, I worked in British Columbia on pipelines. When I returned from there I had 4 CL kits waiting plus a couple new engines. I had a week before school started, and I flew all 4 models, one a 1/2A, two .35s and one .60, on the day school started. That was with cellulose glue and dope finishes. HOBBY? I think more a Passion.
In fact, that about set the stage for my long-time steady girl-friend to start looking for greener pastures

I quit modeling and sold out 3 times in my late teens and early 20s. Never lasted more than 6 months and back to the Hobby Shop.
CL and FF competition until around 1971. Then to RC. Now easing back into some fun CL.

Actually with family things and all, I find little time for modeling anymore. I suppose that is what being retired is all about. For a week I have been preparing for the hurricane "Gustav" and it went east. Not even a good shower of rain. However there are more on the way.
Great Life.


Horrace Cain



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RE: Before R/C - 9/2/2008 10:56:54 PM   
Gary L.



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From: Weatherford, TX, USA
Status: offline 		Cool, I tryed to get into the hobby between 9th & 10 grade ( about 14 or 15 yrs old ) had an ugly stick with a royal ( remember those? ) on 27.185 I think, ( chanle 19 on the C/B radio ) needless to say she came down HARD !!!!! also had a 3ch. E.K Logictroll.

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RE: Before R/C - 11/16/2008 9:39:24 PM   
50+AirYears


 

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From: Lorain, OH, USA
Status: offline 		In order, Free Flight model airplanes, Kites, Model Railroading, Control Line model Airplanes, Model Ships, and then Radio Control. Still fly (or float or run)all the above. In fact, I have more FF, and more CL models, each type, than I have RC planes.

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