I had no idea who Ed was, as I was just around 10 years old, but I did know my dad was hangin around with the big guys in modeling. I was always going to the flying field with him and he would get a plane in the air and hand me the old Orbit radio and tell me not to crash. I would blip the switches and do cuban eights mostly so I would not have to do much moving around with the brace on my leg...and once in a while I would yell out "Heads Up" and do a loop or something that I was told not to do. Blip Blip, the old Bonner servos actually worked pretty good and the radios were fairly reliable except when they weren't which was a lot of the time. I recall one time I was flying my dads favoite Taurus which was a yellow red and black paint scheme, anyway I was was just doing large figure eights in front of me when I blipped and nothing happened...my dad grabbed me and threw me in the car and told me never to take my eyes off the plane and tell him which way to go to follow it...we sped down roads for at least five minutes following the plane when finally it ran out of gas and wound up in a tree miles away from the field...bad battery. I still have that plane and it suffered only minor scratches from that incident but now it has a 2.4 ghz reciever in it and a newer engine and the old timer sewn hinges that all our planes have except 1.

More to come, John