ORIGINAL: aeajr
ORIGINAL: CafeenMan
If you fly, you'll crash. I crash so much that I've become an excellent builder.
Funny you should say this. I started on an RTF. Then I tried an ARF. Then another RTF.
After that I have purchased or been given a number of models that have already been built. Many have needed some kind of repair. Between my own inflicted damage, and fixing up these .... fix-er-uppers, I am becoming a builder, despite all my efforts to avoid building.
I actually built a ZAGI EPP Foam wing from wing cores alone. I don't really consider that "building", but it is getting close.
Some of the guys in the club kid me because I say I am not a builder, then walk into a meeting with a rebuilt wreck to ask the wizards to check it for allignment or any problems. Recently they smile and say I am becoming a builder. I deny it, but it is getting harder and harder to deny.
Who knows, I may actually build a plane from a box of sticks one day, if I fatally crash enough of the 15 planes I have today.
Builders have become the step-children we are ashamed of. When you actually become a true builder, the best thing to do is hide your face in shame. A paper bag with holes punched in it works well. You may consider moving to someplace more liberal, like San Francisco where you'll be accepted.
Suicide is another option, but I don't recommend it. As much as we builders are looked down upon, we're still the ones who know how to fix everything in the house, so that gets us out of the closet they keep us in if only for a short a while.
