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I flew cox 049 u control when I was a kid and now 50 starting in RC,I wish I had started sooner but I am having a ball
I flew cox 049 u control when I was a kid and now 50 starting in RC,I wish I had started sooner but I am having a ball
Me too, I started on a Cox 049 P-40 when I was a kid and I built a few Balsa kits with the rubber band. Now I'm 40 going on 3 years R/C. We both wish we started sooner, but that doesn't matter... we're in it for the long run now! Oh Yea! Many years I was flying the full size planes, so I couldn't afford to fly, and fly R/C at the same time. I had to quit one thing or the other... I could never quite do it together.
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I started at 14. Living in Oshkosh with EAA in my backyard I had the opportunity to attend many youth programs including the EAA/AMA academy. I got started then and have been hooked since. Great training from very experienced pilots and got my first plane a Lanier Indicator from the program. I learned to fly on the PT-20 and 40. Finally made the switch to electrics and am now moving into jets, mainly edf. Now I'm 24 with a fulltime job and making some good money. Life is good!
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im 13 and just starting out... i built my own C/L plane and I think I flew it 10-12 times, got about 2 pints of fuel through it and then the control line snapped and it did a nose dive...amazingly the engine still runs but everything else can go to the burn pile...when I was 11 I had an electric ariplane and I hit a tree...the wing snapped in half and the decals were holding the wing together...it still flew for a while til the sticker came off then it dropped like a rock
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I guess I started when I was about 9 or 10 with a COX .049 P-51 control line. I'm 46 now,........haven't gotten any better either! LOL LOL
Getting ready to start on a Palmer 132.84" C-130 Hercules,.....I wonder if that will work on a control line?,...hummmmm?
Troy
Getting ready to start on a Palmer 132.84" C-130 Hercules,.....I wonder if that will work on a control line?,...hummmmm?
Troy
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I started when I was 6, now I'm 36.My son started when he was 3 and now he is 6 and flying everything from a 4 star 60 to a 42% Giles 202 by him self.
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I started when I was 11, with a precedent high boy and OS40. I'm now 36 and still as mad about RC planes, but only marginally a better pilot than i was 25 years ago!
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ive had RC cars since i was about 5, but they were cheap little nikko things.
my First Nitro was a HPI savage, and that was last may (Barely half a year ago) and now ive got a Tmaxx aswell. im really considering giving RC a try
my First Nitro was a HPI savage, and that was last may (Barely half a year ago) and now ive got a Tmaxx aswell. im really considering giving RC a try
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Started at 13 flying micro helicopters(Ikarus piccolo). Now 15, Almost done building a Top Flight Cessna 182, full lighting, scale opening luggage door (with the light controls, receiver switch, fuel valve), Balsa USA 1/4 scale floats on order. I also have a .20 Cub thats going on GP floats. Just got a Futaba 7C for christmas too
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It hasn't been too long but I started at about age 9 and now I'm 16. Started with a gentle lady glider, then went on to some other various aircraft. The plane that really helped me was the GWS Tigermoth. I now have a Yellow Aircraft Sukhoi SU-31, I scratch built a 1/4 scale Team MiniMAX based upon my fathers, a Slow Poke (the second one I built, the third one I've flown), had my favorite plane a Great Planes Slow Poke (unfortunately had to call it quits after the second crash and four years of flying.), Hangar 9 Corsair, GWS A-10 and Zero, multiple other foamies that I have scratch built to test various thing such as forward swept wings and flying wings, an OV-10 Bronco, A-7 Corsair prop jet, and many other models. Currently working o a 1/4 scale Howard DGA! But actually my main project right now is my real plane. I have my own Pitts S-1C!!! Should be flying it next year! I have already soloed gliders and powered planes and currently have 220 hours total flight time. I plane on being in the Navy, but I'll end my rambling here.
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started flying when i was 22, although i was racing 1/10 scale trucks at the local track, got out of that too boring then started flying planes again.
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I started as many did with plastic models, began Rockets when I was still in grade school ending up with rc cars till my late teens. Started flying in Japan in 1990 and have'nt stopped yet. Allot of my flying came from the military piloting 1/9th scale remote controled moving areal targets (RCMAT). If you have never had the opportunity of getting your plane shot down it is a hoot. Have also been on the shooting end as well, just as fun (liniking to crash discussion forum). OK I digress, became involved with scale while living in Oregon and flying with some great scale modelers, Dick Hansen, Dick Heigning and several other of the Proctor Guys.
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I started when I was 5, I am now 34. I have flown every thing form a glider to jet. I now fly a 40% carden edge and my first kit to build and put on the market a 26cc edge.Modeling has given me the love and taken me to flying real jets for a living. I have enclose a picture of my kit.
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Hey, I started flying at about the age of 7 with a hobbyzone firebird 2. I could really never get it to fly so I gave up So at he age of 11 I had a dream to fly the big glow ones. I worked almodt the whole summer selling mangos and I got my first Glow plane, an Avistar. Now I am flying 3D and propjets and I am 13
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well, like most of us I started with an .049 c/l plane at about 12. I've been involved in the cars for what seems like forever but I always wanted a plane. The GP J-3 cub was the dream. Finally I bought myself one at 27 as my first plane. It clearly states in the manual that a cub is not a trainer. I should have listened. I also ignored the idea of getting an instructor for at least the first few flights. Also a big mistake. First flight scared the **** out of me and I flipped the plane on the landing. One new prop later I tried flying again with shaking knees. I tip stalled it and crashed on take off.
I have two tips for first timers. Get a trainer and an instructor!
I'm thirty now and hooked for life.
I have two tips for first timers. Get a trainer and an instructor!
I'm thirty now and hooked for life.
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im 18 but built my first kit at 17... sig kadet so it wasn't too hard... of course there are some wirnkles in the covering but not too bad lol... my grandad took me to shows and use to be huge in the hobby