ORIGINAL: combatpigg
The PPP comes about 40 years too late....those were the days when you saw kids outside on the streets and the playgrounds playing sports until dark. Kids who were taller than they were wide even! [X(]
There was basically no model aviation of any kind where I grew up and it was always considered a rich man's game anyway. A PPP type program introduced to the schools sure would have beat gluing together popsickle sticks in "art" class.
There were a few in my neighborhood who had at least one attempt at flying small control line stuff with Cox or Wen-Mac .049s. This would have been around 1960. I don't think I even knew that radio control or AMA even existed. I remember having a light blue colored plastic version of something that was supposed to resemble a Dauntless. Had a spring starter on the front and was almost impossible to get running.
That was pretty much it for me until last year when my wife told me I had to find something to do to get me out of the house. A fall off a ladder a couple of years ago and the resulting broken shoulder put a huge damper on my golf swing.
