Actually, Brodak makes a 1/2A trainer that costs significantly less than the Baby Clown. It seems like ehroof has been having some difficulty finding the time to go out flying. Eventually, time will pass and those kids may never experience control-line flying, unfortunately. My parents had the same problem: Too busy, can't find the time to spend. So, I took up rockets instead and did not complete a single airplane kit until I was 35. I just can't count the amount of money that was wasted in kits that never got done or were botched during my childhood, I'm sure it was over $100.00. With nobody to help train, the needed building skills were never acquired, so the projects never got finished. Thankfully, the existence of the plastic models from Cox and Testers helped maintain some interest, even though I never had the chance to learn how to fly one.

Getting enough time to spend with the kids flying C/L. I guess that must be a real toughy. Well, you can't just try to find the time to do it, sadly. If you keep looking, it may never appear. Like building a model, if you want it bad enough, you have to MAKE it. Back in the day, if you didn't BUILD your model, you were stuck either buying someone elses or settling for something made out of plastic. So, people taught each other how to MAKE stuff instead of BUY. These days, you can BUY most anything you want. But time is something you have to MAKE, because it's not something that you FIND under the couch some place. I wish you the best of luck.

NorfolkSouthern