This seems a little more reverent then the first. I hope it will stay that way! I had a great friend whom died a few years ago who was a flying models pioneer. Flew control-line from the 40s to late 60s when proportional came into being and through a control line buddy, was infected with the R/C bug. He wasn't famous; but, flew CL in the Nats several times and met some of the famous, before they were! He was my mentor, my oldest son's mentor and is sorley missed! My guess is there are several hundreds of people like this, whom were R/C buddies of us older guys whom are gone. Maybe they were WW 2 vets, whom I heard several years ago were dying at the rate of one thousand per day!