RE: Believe it or not this is the culprit that got me started.
This thread is so similar to how I got into it.
Christmas before last, my parents decided to buy my brother and I R/C Hummer H2's even though I was 31 at the time and he was 29. It was a great, fun gift and we had a blast. It got my thinking of how I used to want to fly R/C planes as a kid. I had also changed jobs and was no longer traveling 100% so I needed something to fill my time. On the flight home I decided I was going to do this and ordered a plane a couple of weeks later.
Here is the picture of my first plane under assembly sitting alongside the "seed" that started it all.