my mom was my inspiration and helper we would hang and build small plastic models together, I was 6 or 7 the local kids who had money got .049 models and after watching a few of the control line planes, I had to have one,man I pestered my mom relentlessly.
I got a stuka for xmas and promptly destroyed it, after a few trials and errors my cox collection was pretty impressive having almost all the carl goldberg kits we would go through qts of fuel just burning circles at the open lot we flew at.
I got bit by the RC bug when I was about 12 or so, I was still into scale plastic models, but the RC models were just too cool, so I saved up my cash and with some help from gramps I got my Kraft 4ch radio and a Falcon 56 kit, with a K&B 35.
having built a bunch of stick and tissue, and control line models the 56 was a snap,one thing about the 56 was it didn't have stearable nose gear that was interesting to say the least,and was a real challenge to stear.
a guy who owned the local hobby shop flew at a undeveloped area by my house,now full of condos and a strip mall, and would help us kids with our planes, the big club at lake casitas was way to far for us kids, and they flew at first light, but Carl was a cool dude and he put up with us, afetr flying and crashing some, I kind of lost interest got into High school and moved on.
so wow its been about 7 years now I decided I wanted to check out RC again and started browsing the web here on RCU and just got the bug again, my kids are interested in checking it out so I have started with a couple small planes and I have a little 049 collection going as well .

this last year I have slowed down quite a bit, its been a bit hectic, had knee surgery, and life has been busy, but I still have some larger projects going and my planes in my hangar which seems to be growing each year.
these days WWII fighter planes are my muse