While I myself never became a very proficient C/L pilot. I sure had alot of fun with it! My Dad was hopelessly deseased with it. He used to drag my brother & I all over the midwest with him & his flying buddies, from one competition to the next. Even at the age of 7, I can tell you it was anything but boring!! I loved to watch him fly, & he was into all of it. Stunt, Combat, & his favorite, Rat-Racing! He would spend countless hours hand polishing every piece of his race engines, looking for that little edge in power, and i believe he found it too. 41 yrs later his house is still full of old trophies from his C/L days. He too got into RC as the years went by but he never forgot his roots, and the last plane he flew was his hot pink Nobler C/L plane that he had won so many trophies with. He's still alive & enjoying life allthough he is no longer able to fly, he still Knows how to build. We slapped an ARF together a few weeks ago. He got a real kick out of it, being darn near built for us, after so many years of building from scratch, & kits. He also still has some original design planes he built, he's not quite ready to let those go yet but the rest he has given to me.

We still have at least one guy that I know of at the club I am trying to join that does fly C/L there. He cleared himself a nice spot off the end of the runway and does his thing. Looks to me like he's having a ball with it too. C/L is not dead to me!![sm=sunsmiley.gif]


Mark