FYRWALKER and ghee-grose,

I'm a displaced Alabamian originally from Homewood (if you know where that is). When I was a kid I would go to Spivey's in West End and Homewood Hobby and drool at the RC planes. I finally saved enough money to buy a Goldberg Falcon and an OS 46 (which was very new technology) but I didn't finish building it till I was through with college and married. We were so poor I had to put the monokote on with a clothes iron. At that time my 7 channel radio cost $600. There were no clubs in the area of Ohio that I lived in but a bunch of guys would gather at the fire academy and fly. It was not an AMA certified field and people would bring coolers of beer and get a little crazy and would not watch the newbies they were training. Needless to say I got in trouble with my plane and before anyone could get to me to help it was too late. That was the end of my plane. A farmer found it when he was harvesting his corn crop months later. I got out of the hobby for a few years and got back in when things started to get cheaper and I had more money. Now it is 35 years and a dozen planes later and I'm finally learning how to fly good. Talk about a slow learner!

Anyway, I thought I would introduce myself. War Eagle!!