Growing up watching old movies with warbirds in them, and balsa gliders was all it took for me to get the bug. I built some plastic models when I was younger also. but seeing a free flight plane hanging there floating along never got old, even when it was an out of trim glider smacking into the side of your house.. There was some fullscale activity from some of my more distant relatives.. But I have never really been interested in going that route.