Remember those rubber-band launched, folding wing gliders? I started flying those in '47. Then there was the "stick 'n tissue", which would actually almost fly. Then came the hardwood "sand-for-ever hope they look like the actual plane" kits.
Then the plastics - never enough room in my bedroom for all of those dust collectors! Then got interested in the more complex free-flights and gliders with those less than consistent de-thermalizers and then some control-line models. But then life put everything on hold for a while.
Got back into modeling in '76 with my first RC slope glider which then lead to power models. For now I'm still flying slope gliders and I've just completed making floats for my 1/6 "stand-way-off-scale" DHC-2 Beaver.
Life goes fast when you're not paying attention.
