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Old 04-03-2025 | 08:25 PM
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ctdahle
 
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I'm still building them, but flying is practically over. I retired from teaching school and ended up getting talked out of retirement and into fabricating custom parts for general aviation instead. I still have my little SR Cutie that I could fly at the local park but I guess doing so would be illegal now. I have no interest in the RTF toys that seem to be the only thing available at my local hobby shop.

Technically it is still legal to fly at my county owned field, the runway is still there, but no one has mowed down the weeds since I did it back in about 2018. The addition of a new full scale runway sort of ended everything.

Tried to keep interest up locally by teaching lots of kids to fly, some really well, but mostly they got themselves admitted to engineering programs and they have moved far away.