It's a shame. I've spent 35 years telling people that we fly radio control aircraft, not toys, and then one day I open the magazines and find out that most of the us do fly toys! I quess that those old farts flying their scale airplanes haven't got the message yet. All I know is that the most popular events I see all over the country are those darn Warbirds Fly-ins. For those of you who think 3-d is the be all and end all broaden your horizons and try something else. Those old farts you see probably flew in pattern contests long before you were the sparkle in someones eye. Sometimes just keeping an underpowered overweight scale warbird in the air takes a lot more skill than flopping around. Just so you know, I am not an old fart, I fly everything from pylon racers to gliders, I have a flopper which I fly now and then, I also have planes from 30" to 10', but right now the big warbirds turn my crank.

Larry