One of my uncles had me buy the balsa sticks and taught me scratch building stick and tissue construction when I was 8.
I started flying U-control with the Cox PT-19 shortly after and started building U-control from kits (Carl Goldberg Little Toot was a blast) and scratch.
In high school I was flying larger U-controls, with the occasional 1/2 thrown in and then I found combat.
Started in R/C with gliders in 1983, went to glow powered R/C in 1986, changed to electric powered R/C in 1991 and now I am going into gasoline powered.

R.C.