My first model engine: Cox .049 powered Stuka C/L model in 1969. It was a present on my 7th birthday. I never got to try it...my dad dorked it before I ever got a chance to....<G>

A multitude of .049's after that...strapped to anything that would go.

My first R/C engine was in 1976....a Fox .25. Mem-O-Reees....

**Model aircraft, and the people associated with it are directly responsible for re-directing the lives of countless young people who would have otherwise been lost to the vices at hand. It is incumbent upon each modeler to do his/her best to assist and mentor a beginner....No man stands taller than he who stoops to help a boy...."

'Race