Hello, my name is John Nansen and I am 58. I took early retirement as an engineer from the Hanford Nuclear Site in S.E. Washington last year. I am also a retired Army LTC. I started this hobby in 1968 while a 2LT at Fort Ord, CA. Started out with a Goldberg Falcon 56. Then went to the Goldberg Skylane, then a Royal Stearman, a finally, before I got orders to NAM, a P-51. Got out of the Hobby until around 1976 or so. Then I was flying an MRC Cessna 177, Schluter Heliboy (HEli), and started a D&B Models Corsair. Poked around in it until my career took hold and got out again in 1979.

I used to fly full scale but gave that up soon after comming to Hanford. Couldn't afford to keep it up. Now that I am retired, I decided to once again get back into this R/C thing again. We moved to a lake in Washington, very close to Canada. So, this winter, I will be building one of the Pilatus Porters and put in on floats so that I can fly off my dock.

Currently flying: Hangar 9 Easy Fly 40 and a TF Stinson (haven't actually flown it yet)

In Progress: WM G.S. P-51 with Saito 180GK.

In The Box: TF GS Corsair, NWHT Gee Bee R2 and Corsair and about to buy the RC Plane Power Pilatus Porter. Also have an older Sig YAK 18 and a VK Fokker Tri-Plane. Aslo have a Century Hawk IV.

Future: PBY, P-47, TF Bonanza, Beaver on floats.

Some of my other hobbies are woodworking, trap shooting, cowboy action shooting, SCUBA, and just plain relaxing.

Nice to meet you...........Have fun

Nice to meet you John, and I am giving you a salute, but you can't see it. I'm on the other side of the Cascades from you so were kind of like distant neighbors. I took basic at Ft Ord in '66 and thought that it was the best of all the differnt bases I trained at. I see you learned to fly on the same 2 planes that I did and I have a Goldberg Skylane 62 down in the shop just waiting it's turn. Welcome back to the hobby, and even more so welcome to the best web site going for R/C. If I can assist you in the future just let me know.

Hi John, pleased to meet you. Seems you keep very busy. I'm retired Navy, and worked at the Cincinnati Fernald plant as a cleanup operations consultant. Glad to get out of the politics of DOE and nuclear waste? Enjoy your flying, it is the best hobby around. You seem to have several weeks worth of labor stacked in the corner. I have a VK Camel, great airplane to fly. Just be sure that your rudder use is habitual, you need it to fly the camel or tripe.
Good luck,
Mike

I am despatatly searching for a Sig Yak.
would you be willing to sell yours?

Greetings and welcome to the community. Especially with us ARF'ers