Hey Scotty, I hope you are right about the kids being interested. A friend of mine in Australia recently told me that he flys control line within 200 yards of a local school. None of the kids that can hear the engines bother to come over. Heck, when I was a kid I would have gone running to see what all the commotion was about. Maybe it depends on ewhere you live. My girlfriend used to run a daycare where I did some volunteer work. I tried to get the kids interested in control line flying and even building plastic static model cars. I never got past paper airplanes. Nope, TV and video games fired their boilers. From my experience kids don't have the patience to see a build through or attempt to trouble shoot an engine that misbehaves. Grab a toy, put in batteries, push a button. I'm bored. Back to video games. i think it's the video game/instant gratification thing. Please don't get me wrong. I'm sitting here with a 1959 Thimble Drome Curtiss Pusher and Cox Extra 300S hanging from my ceiling. I would love a Gurney Eagle with a decent engine in it. I would even loan my 1959 .049 Baby Bee to the project. If the Eagle or Mercedes are ever re-released I want to know about it.

Long live tether cars. If you like tether cars you can (almost) own a piece of history by buying, at usually a pretty reasonable price, a reproduction of the old 1951 Thimble Drome Champion car made by Nylint. It's nicer than anything Roy Cox built and I had an original. Hurry to your favorite auction site and nail one because Nylint is out of business now. You won't be diappointed. Oh, and I would buy the little pusher prop hydroplane boat in a heartbeat.

Regards,
Bill