winter projects

[Wayne Galligan]

getting old?    I would call that living......

I share many of those same experiences and even though I left the hobby for
about 25 yrs it was just like riding a bike... it all came back in no time
flat.

Its hard to get kids interested in the hobby with all the other influences
around them.  They gotta wanna do it on their own, then do the guidance
thing.  Usually it doesn't matter what is flying as long as they get to say
" I flew it".  I had several of the neighbor kids out to the field with my
son and let them fly my pattern plane on the buddy box.  That was the talk
of the hood for about a week that they flew my BIG PATTERN plane.  So winter
project is getting a trainer together and I am sure I will have the hood out
to the flying field on many occasions this year.  LQQking forward to it.

Wayne G.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: White, Chris
  To: discussion at nsrca.org
  Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:12 AM
  Subject: RE: Winter projects


  Instant gratification is nice, helps the hobby, promotes exposure.  The
kids are good on the computer and typically most that I have experienced do
well on the sticks and progress quickly with whatever trainer we are flying
(Alpha, Kadet, etc) .   Its a different world....airplanes, models and
flying have always been an addiction to me....I wouldn't give up my 30
second successes at age 12 with my scratch built Javalaero (Ted Strader),
Cox .020, Ace pulse commander (rudder only) experience.  Not to mention the
tens of hundreds of Sleek Streaks, Comet kits, and control line before the
R/C stuff....

  This is a great hobby, I'm grateful for every facet of experience I've had
in it!  (Even the heliboy I bought used in 1978 for 50bucks with no help and
no instructions, but a desire to try helicopters.  A worn out HP40,  and the
elation felt with a successful  3-4 second hover.....from my hula hoop
landing gear... no gyros, no mixing [Kraft KP5C])

  I still love the smell of Ambroid, Sigment, and Aero Gloss, and most of
all, burning castor oil.
  Gosh, am I getting old at 44......:)

  Chris White
  Owasso OK
  AMA 20412


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