So control line flying was now a passion, after completely wearing out the .049, and obtaining a Taipan .15 glow, an Aero Flyte Fury A class team racer, I got hooked on team racing.
I joined the Townsville Model Aircraft club and the monthly meetings always had a "jumble sale/swap shop". I was able to get many crashed planes that I repaired and flew again, some motors , most were hard to get running!
My eldest brother was involved in radio and electronics, and was working at the new TV station in our town.
There was a kids show on every afternoon, and the host was asking for kids to share what they did in their spare time. He told them about the Model Aero Club, and that his brother was a builder and may be interested in going on. I thought , why not, and the first time I went on I had a " my design" simple .15 powered stunted in bare bones and explained how it was built. The second time on a week later, I had covered and painted it, and explained how that was accomplished.
That ended my TV career!
RC was just coming in by this time, the club bought a transmitter, & my dad bought me an "Invader" rudder only and I worked for him after school to buy a receiver. That done, plane built we went SC flying on the weekends. Escapements, valves, relays, rubber bands, those were the days.
I was getting older now, started work in 63 as an apprentice boilermaker.
The need to get to my job required me to obtain transportation, which led to
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