[NSRCA-discussion] November Model Aviation

[John Konneker]

Noticed two things in this month's issue.
 
1- A great shot of our own Jeremy Chinn's "Kudzu" in the Nats photo section
 
2- The back cover ad from Horizon for a control line plane!  One of the ad's sales points
is "remember the days of control line in schoolyards".  I can remember in the late '50s when 
I was in grade school my Dad taking me up to my school's playground to teach me to 
fly.  He had been an active control line flyer when I was a really little guy...ignition...I still have
some of his engines, control handle, etc.  Anyway, I had absolutely no "feel" for it.  He would start it while
I was out in the center of the circle with the handle.  He would release the plane when I was ready and 
run as fast as he could for me to try to coach me.  He never made it... :-(  A few years later I flew at the 
Cox control line circle at Disneyland.  I think it was 1960.  There is some 8mm movie film my Dad took of
me that I watched at my mother's about two years ago or so when she passed away.  The ad is right...
It does bring back memories...
JLK
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