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I was about to retire and the person I was training to take my place gave me a Corsair RTF airplane as a going away gift. I hadn’t flown a model airplane since I was a teenager, and u-control at that!
I found the Airmasters RC Club by accident one day and stopped in and asked if they could teach me to fly. That was in 2016. After a few years as club secretary, I was voted in as President of the club.
In high school, I built planes to fly Control Line. Years later, I built a radio-controlled electric plane. I flew it once and crashed it.
Now, I build almost-ready-to-fly planes that are powered by four Stroke Saito engines. Also, I have two electric planes to build.
I have my own 15-acre field to fly my planes in.
My dad was born in 1915, and he lived through this early era of aviation and finally through the Space Shuttle era. He built airplane models as a teen, and directed my interest to aviation by gifting me model aircraft while I was growing up. I continue as a member of the AMA and with this great model aviation hobby, in great part as a remembrance of and in honor of my dad.
Flying my helicopters, jets, airplanes, trucks, and cars that I'm able to drive and my boat is my hobby and my passion. I love doing this when I can. I'm able to build, learn new stuff, and I'm able to help out. I can train people at the field and when I do, it feels good to help somebody else new to the sport.
Greetings My fellow Flyers and supporters of our addiction,
With the Grace of GOD, the club has been very giving to me in the membership fee over the last few years in which I have been deeply and gratefully humbled by the opportunity you have allowed me to enjoy with all the Perks it brings.
I have been involved with RC flying since 1986 and have built and flown models from high wing trainers when I first started to ducted fan jets. I enjoy the finishing and scale attributes of aircraft cockpits to clean and precise wiring in fuselages. I hate to see rats nests inside fuselages.
Nowadays, I am flying mostly 42% to 55% aircraft such as Carden 300 pro with 126" wingspan to 55% Christen Eagle. I guess I like large aircraft, as to me they fly much like the real thing.
Chapter 1: Holes in the Silkspan
My earliest memories of model airplanes go back to when I was 6 years old. I can remember warm Saturday afternoons when my Dad would drive me and my younger brother Bob, he was 2 at the time, out to the local Control Line flying site. It was actually part of the Philadelphia Water Works, and it was located next to the Philadelphia Police Academy. So the site was commonly called “The Police Academy.”
I worked at a hobby shop just long enough to try out beginner airplanes.
Years later, we live on 11 acres and now have a grass airstrip. For years now, I have flown many RC aircraft. As my reflexes are slowing down, I'm enjoying the various helicopters which fly like drones.
Hopefully, I can get my wife to try one out when the weather is better! Even though I'm retired, I have less time to enjoy the hobby, as I am the mayor of our small town and a pastor.
It is very relaxing to grab a Huey and do figure-eights over our east pasture!
I began flying Control Line in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1959 with a Wen-Mc .049. I moved up to a Guillows Profile #3 within a few months and joined AMA (38937 J) so I could enter the GSCB balloon bust contests.
While still a junior, I began to build better airplanes and learned to fly Navy Carrier. I flew in most New Jersey Control Line contests until I graduated high school in 1969. I was out of the hobby while in college and serving time in the US Air Force.
I have quite an extensive 43 years to share. I have flown RC on the North American continent from Mexico to the Arctic North. I was an AMA Associate Vice President for Alaska and visited every club. I now live in Nevada and still fly RC.
I have been vice president for our club and was newsletter editor for 5 years. I have experiences for all my flying I could share.
