wraith0078

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Started with rockets at 12-13, then rubber powered planes around the same time. Still build them occasionally. Got into computers around 14 and didn't touch another RC until 23 or 24. I'll be 27 Monday 4/4 and I just paid for my first plane today. (used Sig Midstar) I've had FMS for the last year or so now and the guy I'm buying the plane from is lending me his copy of Realflight G2 for awhile too.

cryptic_stylz

got a four star forty and i am thinking of putting a nova rossi 51 or a webber 50 in it which is better

Darkace

im 15 now but my dad got me flying before i can remember. Before 6 for sure. But it wasnt till i was about 10 when i really started to get into the hobby and getting my own planes and stuff.

satariq

Started at age of 30. Now I am 31.

CRASH10

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I started flying at 16 now im 35 once you get the bug its hard to shake. I cant tell you how many planes iv owned but do the math (ALOT). I can tell you that the bigger planes fly a whole lot better Check out my vids

Canuck50

54 years of age and still getting younger. Started with a Tiger 60 combo. local help with the training and have not looked back. Had a few mistakes but with life as with flying every thing is learning experience. I now have in my hanger a Tiger 60, a 1/6 beaver on floats, and just purchased a Monster pitts from CG, and let me tell you this hobby is almost as good as s##

modelflying2004

im 15 now and started at 14

vending_works

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I was holding u-control at 5 for my Dad, Im 57 now. I flew the first r/c`s in late 60`s. and still do today. Do I win?

Fly-n-3D

I started at 12.

jetmech05

my daughter soloed at 9.
see the march 05 issue of the ama mag disctric 4 report pg 152.
i thought her to fly took about 6 months or so

proud dad

PaulWR

I started building when I was 10. I built and flew u-control when I was in High School. After High School I got into single channel radio control (when I was 19 - 24). I left the hobby for a while during my early married years - except for a working model of a hover craft - never did put radio in it. Not until I retired did I get back into RC modeling. I'm 72 now. Does that sound like a familiar story??

gjeffers

yes it does paul, i started when i was about 10 with a control line that i bought at a clothing store (small towns never cease to amaze!)and then i took her out and me and my buddy fueled her up and away i went i flew her like a champ and made it look so easy i convinced myself and my buddy that it was easy and he could fly it also,(i was never stingy) so we gassed her up and he took her straight up and then straight down right into the cotton field about 6 in deep. never bought another one till last year and have been having a ball since(on my 6th plane i am only 52.

hunt4679

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I started flying 1/2A control line when I was 4 years old with my dad and his friend . I started building them when I was 7 or 8 (have 4 trophys to prove it!) Moved up to .35 size U-control when I was 12. Touched on RC when I was 15, then we quit flying for about 11 years . Until this year when I finally got back into it, and that I did about $3000 later you could say that I got into it. But Its still great going to the feild with my dad on a sunday morning for him to watch me spend money!! Im still trying to get him to fly again!!!

Ryan Archer

i started when i was 3 with an rc oldtimer and now fly a 35% edge 540. but my fastest olane once went 144 mph when chris click owned it. now it goes 140 because it got crashed at the electric festival when chris's antenna did something that put it in the ground so he gave it to me and i rebuilt it. i have 12 planes, 3 boats, 2 cars and 2 battle bots. now i'm 11. ryan

PaulWR

gjeffers, I nearly had my heart broken trying to fly one of these 1/2 a plastic "Spitfires" that came in a neat package. If that is the type of plane you are describing, you certainly did well to fly it successfully. I know of others besides myself that were not happy with their experience with their similar planes.
When I went into U-control, I bought my first engine - a Buzz 19 (ignition type of engine). I spent hours trying to start it. I could get the odd pop from it but never could get it running until I talked to my LHS dealer about it. He suggested I try this new fangled glow plug set up that he had been selling for a while. I bought a pint of glo fuel and a glo plug from him. I think the engine started up in about two or three flips. What a happy and memorable time time that was for me. The engine wore out very quickly and my next engine was an Ohlson 23 which ran beautifully for many years.

gjeffers

well Paul it was in a neat package and it was plastic(remember trying to glue it back together w/no success) and it could have been a spitfire, i know it was a cox engine and it was in 1963, i had so many things going on at 10 it didnt take me long to forget it, but in 03 my sweetie asked me "what ya want for christmas?" and i didnt know untill the end of february and it all came back to me,(i wanted to fly!!!). so since i live out by death valley ca, there is no one within my area to teach me so i ordered a 3ch electric and flew it till it wouldnt go any more then i went to town and bought a H9 alpha and fired it up and flew it and got it back down with out to much damage(broke the prop) replaced it and the rest is history, and i love it

pac14

I am 15 and just starting aways have loved them but parents aren't into them to much. We have to guys in our little town of 400 that build them and fly and i am going to get one from them and they are going to show me how to fly it and stuff. What are some good models to start with

gjeffers

pac 14, i started with a h9 alpha, and highly reccomend it, good quality, and easy get parts for, comes complete, just need starter kit and your flying

here it is
http://www.horizonhobby.com/Shop/ByC...ProdID=HAN2475

mgruenba

My Dad and I got into the Hobby together, I was 13 when I started. I am now 14. I have been flying for 11 months. Now I am flying an H9 Miss America Mustang .60, Ultra Stick .40, Twist .40. It took me 10 x 15 minute lessons max. I love RC Flying. We also fly fullscale C-172 and C182. I fly for fun right now. I get my license in 2.5 years.

Regards
mgruenba

PaulWR

Gary, I guess it is said, about many hobbies but I have noticed particularly about RC flying that it does "get in your blood". Once you got into it as a boy, you (most people) usually come back to it some time down the road.
My first RC (with Proportional multichannel radio) was a Telemaster 40 with flaps. Had a lot of fun flying that. Then I put together a CG Chipmunk (in 1989) Believe it or not I am still flying that model (worse for wear and a bit oil logged). Built a Top Flight Corsair. Got tired of retract problems and then built a CG Sukhoi - a very nice flyer.
Then I got a H9 P51 ARF - a great flyer. Then a CG Decathlon ARF - spun it into the ground 4 weeks ago. Now "building" a GP Lancair.

corey19981

yay! looks like I'm the youngest one here! I'm 11 years old. I started - can you believe it.. when I was eight years old.

aeroplanes, I'm told, are easy to fly, although I've never flown them.

I have an eco piccolo rc electric heli. my mum and dad aren't really into it.

check out my website

http://www.coreyjsmith.co.uk

go on the 10 and a half to present, and press helicopter on the sidebar.

also, you can see a video of me flying my helicopter by going here and pressing the link.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/coreysvideos/

Reply everyone!
Corey

dicknadine

started way back in the middle 1930's, solid models, .10 cent rubber models, Flying Qaker in early 1940's, full size wartime fighter plane draftsman, then machinist with a mobile machine shop in Italy, keeping P-47 and P-51's flying. college, then crew chief on Unlimited,GoldCup Race boats, designing and building the the REDSTONE missles thru man in space vehicles, finally retired to scratch building RC models and still at it at 81 years young and plan on keeping it up. check the other forums, lots of photos of my scratch models. dick stamm

PaulWR

WELL, DICK, YOU BEAT ME BY 9 YEARS!
PAUL

BULL-RCU

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This kid flys at our club... 9 yrs old... Flys Heli and airplanes... Way better at HELI... One of the best I've seen... Already has offers from major Heli companys but MOM says School first... Good thing us guys have moms to keep us straight!

Video
http://www.helifreak.com/Kyle05Apr_inset.wmv

His site is www.kylerocks.com Visit his web site to see some other videos... You will be amazed... and YES it's him flying.

Dr.Watson

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im 13 and have a GWS PT-17 that flies great except for the firewall being pushed into the battery