Hello,
Until a couple months ago, i thought (like most people) that CL is boring. I thought "Whats so fun about spinning around in circles?" My father grew up flying CL, and free flight. He got into RC, but he still sticks with his first love, CL. He tried to get myself and my brother involved in it when we were young, making all sorts of planes for us, but we never really liked it. I started flying RC about 4 years ago, and had not flown CL since 3 years before that. A couple months ago, my dad persuaded me to go with him to a CL contest in Dallas. We brought a little 1/2a F-86 for me to fly after he had flown his stunter. Well, once i got back on the handle, i realized how much fun it was. The little '86 would only fly for 2 minutes or so, but it was 2 minutes of pure fun. Like i said, i had not flown CL in a very long time, but i picked it up very quickly again, and by the 3rd or 4th flight i was able to do loops and hold level flight easily.

Also, i think that the reason more people arent involved in CL is because there is not much publicity. There are no RTF CL planes out there. You cant go to RadioShack and buy a RTF CL plane (however bad it may be). I think that most people today are only interested in the "cutting edge" of technology. CL has been around so long that most technological improvements have been made, so there arent many brand new ideas for CL as there are for RC. Well, thats it for me.

Alex (14 year old who loves CL)