The flying field was at my home. It was mostly up to me to cut the grass. I grew tired of this responsibility. I got more heavily into sailing and I started building a model railroad in my basement. Also, my best flying buddy was showing the signs of early Alzheimers and it broke my heart to see his abilities dwindling.

When I came back this past spring, I bought an Ultra Stick .40. O.S. .46LA and an Airtronics VG6000. (I had sold most of my R/C stuff on Ebay). Since I fly Mode One, which is even less popular now then it was when I left R/C, I was on my own as far as test flying and trimming out the plane was concerned. With the best R/Cer in the club standing along side, I took off, trimmed out the plane, flew around a little while, did a loop and a roll, and proceeded to land the plane dead stick. I would have used a buddy box, if another Mode One flyer had been available.

So, I'm back in force! My hanger includes Hanger 9's FuntanaS .40, P-40 Warhawk (which I won in a drawing) a THE HOTS .40 sized, which a scratch built from Midwest's plans and I am now building a Dynaflite SE5a. I got over 100 flights with the Stick, before it met an untimely demise. What brought me back to the sport was missing building planes, the BS sessions about airplanes with flying buddies and missing the flying. I like to say the hobby to me is 50% building, 30% camaraderie/BSing with buddies and 20% flying.

Now, I like nothing better then to go out to the flying field approximately 9.3 miles from my home, hop on a mower and cut the grass! Go figure!