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Old 12-01-2007, 07:00 AM
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Default RE: Is "Wood Glue" dead?

Barry,

Welcome back to the hobby - and the NEW R/C. Your story is familiar to all of us 50-somethings: Homebuilt R/Cs in high school, then military/college/family/career/second wife/kids moving out...then back in/third wife/etc. And now, back into the hobby. Screeeeeeeeeech (sound of car tires!) What happened to R/C? Everything's.........different!

Yep, unfortunately, RCM, the magazine we used to hide inside our high school government book is gone - replaced by about 15 new R/C magazines of which none really measure up to "our" old RCM. Today's kids (always the backbone of the hobby) aren't as interested in building as they are flying so more manufacturers offer RTFs and ARFs than boxes of wood sticks and dreams. And the "flying" that they do...well, that's just odd too. REAL planes just don't fly by hanging from their props and I don't care what anybody else says - there's just something unnatural about watching a model B-29 doing acro. Nobody learns to fly now by crow hopping their trainer in the high school parking lot until they get up the nerve to do their first go around. Everybody hooks up to the Official Club Trainer Guy via an umbilical cord (for a small hourly fee) and learns how to fly without ever breaking a prop. And nobody mows lawns anymore to earn enough money to buy their dream Cox .049. Jeez, even all of the drive-in theatres are gone now so today's high schoolers have to learn about sex from the internet! No, wait! That's a different subject.