ORIGINAL: Wild Foamy
Over $2000 / year 35%
:O:O:O some of you lot have more money than things to spend it on dont you?
i get £10 a week from my paper round (stop laughing) and that amounts to £520 a year, 80% of that goes towards my savage for broken limbs and fuel e.t.c, 20% of that goes onto other things.
Been there. And at that stage was building Gillows and Dumas rubber powered and had maybe two 0.049 engines I swapped out into free-flight stick and tissue models. Late in H.S. I got into control line - way up to the 30", 0.25 size ships.
We've got a young, single engineer for Lockheed at our club who will roll out a couple $15,000 on up jets and make 'em dance. WAY too rich for my blood. (Boy, they sound great when they take off, though). When you buy a 180,000 rpm turbine engine and it comes in a custom fit attache case you're out of my league. At my last club "the clique" was flying $4,000 & up pattern planes. I was out giggling like a nut with my butt-ugly sport nuttin-scales or squint scale WWI bipes and just happy to be boring holes in the sky. Still am.
There can be a lot of peer pressure in this pursuit. We've got 40 guys in our club and cover it all, so there's always someone to fly and chat with. The very good news is that R/C offers so much it's not hard to find your niche and be happy as a pig in . . . oats.
Another great thing about starting humbly. I'm still tickled that I can make 'em turn left AND right in the same flight!
"Didja see that? I made it do that!"
Set your expectations low and you'll never be disappointed.
