Hello, my name is John Nansen and I am 58. I took early retirement as an engineer from the Hanford Nuclear Site in S.E. Washington last year. I am also a retired Army LTC. I started this hobby in 1968 while a 2LT at Fort Ord, CA. Started out with a Goldberg Falcon 56. Then went to the Goldberg Skylane, then a Royal Stearman, a finally, before I got orders to NAM, a P-51. Got out of the Hobby until around 1976 or so. Then I was flying an MRC Cessna 177, Schluter Heliboy (HEli), and started a D&B Models Corsair. Poked around in it until my career took hold and got out again in 1979.

I used to fly full scale but gave that up soon after comming to Hanford. Couldn't afford to keep it up. Now that I am retired, I decided to once again get back into this R/C thing again. We moved to a lake in Washington, very close to Canada. So, this winter, I will be building one of the Pilatus Porters and put in on floats so that I can fly off my dock.

Currently flying: Hangar 9 Easy Fly 40 and a TF Stinson (haven't actually flown it yet)

In Progress: WM G.S. P-51 with Saito 180GK.

In The Box: TF GS Corsair, NWHT Gee Bee R2 and Corsair and about to buy the RC Plane Power Pilatus Porter. Also have an older Sig YAK 18 and a VK Fokker Tri-Plane. Aslo have a Century Hawk IV.

Future: PBY, P-47, TF Bonanza, Beaver on floats.

Some of my other hobbies are woodworking, trap shooting, cowboy action shooting, SCUBA, and just plain relaxing.