ORIGINAL: GallopingGhostler
Nowadays you wonder why kids have such identity crisis's and suffer sometimes from low esteem. The ability to work with one's hands gave something to take personal pride in, especially when it flew. It didn't take much for the CL planes to fly. Even though the Scientifics did not stunt well, to climb and dive was rewarding of itself, not to mention landing on the wheels. The making the engines to run and enjoying the noise and smell of nitro was intoxicating of itself, but was good clean fun.
That sums up my Grandsons quite well. I showed them the Gullows J-3 their Mother built up when she was 16 y.o. and seems nothing caught fire. I've always thrown stuff at them hoping something would stick besides hand held computer games but alas....
I'll keep trying on the soon to be delivered Great Grand Son.
Ray W.