G'day

It all started for me way back in the mid 1950s when my father and I spotted some model engines in a shop in Manly, NSW, Australia. I was fascinated by all the pretty colours and shiny cases. I would have loved one but in those days each was worth about a week's of my father's wage.

Sometime around the same time I saw my first flying model. It was a control line model and I was becoming hooked but the final hook went in when my next door neighbour turned up with a small Frog 150 diesel engine. The two of us did some research and bought some fuel and before long the little Frog was singing happily for us. That little engine taught me a lot about tuning engines.

Later still I was invited to visit a control line club. That was the final straw. I joined, bought an OS 15 Max II and have been flying models ever since (on and off a bit though).

The first RC model I saw was an Aeroflyte Hustler (a very popular Australian made trainer once). It was at the control line club and it did not fly but they did taxi it around and I was impressed with the control system. Not long later a club started flying near where I was living and I saw my first RC model fly and also my first electric glider too.

A move to the country from Sydney gave me the opportunity to fly RC models. That was in 1989 and I am still at it and still learning.