i was the kind of kid that while my buddies were reading spyderman and mad comic books, i was reading popular mechanics and mechanics illustraded...... i can honestly say that i never once read a comic book, and only paged through a mad magazine or two because it was there at my buddy's house and we were bored.
i started flying large u-control at11 or 12by building a buster kit and my dad took me to a local air field where the areaclub flew.
now, at the same time,my best buddy's dad flew r/c and had a basementfull of planes and parts of planes. we would go to his cottage in the winter and he would fly off thelake. my buddy's basement was my favorite place to be and everytime i went to his house, i had to go downstairs and look at all the stuff. well, one day, after a million questions about his planeshehandedme a falcon 56 fuse and awing that may or maynothave been from that plane, but it was, in his words..."about the right size, so it should work fine".....,he said he knew a guy that had a 4 channel radio for sail and he would talk to him and see if he would save it for me and give me a few weeks to come up with the money to buy it. in the mean time he said, " here, let's see if you canget this ready to fly" i worked on it for a couple weeks scratched up the money and got the radio.
i flew that plane for a couple years rebuilt the wing a few times and for whatever reason a 16 yr.old would have, just kind of wandered off into other intrests.i still havethat plane and now, some 40 years later, i have retired from a carreer in carpentry. my passion for model buildingand r/c flying is still going strongand idecidedto get back into the hobby.