I had always liked watching rc planes and tried a you-control one once. My mom had gotten me a cox PT-19. It probably would have been fun if my grandfather had been the teaching/mentor type but he wasn't. it took forever to get started, cracked the hell out of your knuckles, and didnt stay running for long. i actually got it in the air for a couple of spins and then the line broke and she met mother earth. Out of frustration, my grandfather threw it in the trash, GREAT INTRODUCTION to the hobby.
A neighbor friend of the family was into RC plane building. When we would go visit them, I'd just stand in the workshop in awe. i was into model building but this was WAY more than that and frankly intimidated me. i couldnt see spending a month+ building a plane to have it crash after a very short time. so i got into other things. In Okinawa, I got into rc cars and raced at the Del Mar track after I got out of the Marines.
I started flying about a year ago. I got an MQX just for fun and didn't like the stock controller so I got a DX6- much better control but it opened the door to too many things. I then picked up a micro T-28. I flew/crashed/rebuilt this little plane till I thought that this is a lot easier than I had thought/been told. I surely was ready for what I had been shooting for all along, a large warbird.
Being a prior active duty Marine I had to go w/the parkzone Corsair. Silly little man! This did NOT go well for me, (or the Corsair). So, on the shelf she went (
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