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[Robert McKellar]

Hello everyone,

 I'm new to this forum and kind of new to free flight modeling. A friend of mine got me into this and I started building just over a year ago.

 I did build and fly RC models for a couple decades and designed a couple dozen models. I also designed three different, lazer cut model kits that were in production with a couple companies.

 Health issues forced me to quit flying RC over a decade ago but last year I started building free flight models. I'm enjoying working with balsa again.

Cheers!

Rob

[Konrad]

Hello everyone,

 I'm new to this forum and kind of new to free flight modeling. A friend of mine got me into this and I started building just over a year ago.

 I did build and fly RC models for a couple decades and designed a couple dozen models. I also designed three different, lazer cut model kits that were in production with a couple companies.

 Health issues forced me to quit flying RC over a decade ago but last year I started building free flight models. I'm enjoying working with balsa again.

Cheers!

Rob

Please tell us more of your hobby exploits. I'm curious as to learn how health issues drove you from RC to FF. Normally it is the other way around as running through the vast open fields chasing our models becomes more of an issue as we progress in age.

[pb_guy]

Welcome Rob.
from yet another Canuck
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[lincoln]

Hello everyone,

 I'm new to this forum and kind of new to free flight modeling. A friend of mine got me into this and I started building just over a year ago.

 I did build and fly RC models for a couple decades and designed a couple dozen models. I also designed three different, lazer cut model kits that were in production with a couple companies.

 Health issues forced me to quit flying RC over a decade ago but last year I started building free flight models. I'm enjoying working with balsa again.

Cheers!

Rob

Please tell us more of your hobby exploits. I'm curious as to learn how health issues drove you from RC to FF. Normally it is the other way around as running through the vast open fields chasing our models becomes more of an issue as we progress in age.

It may be possible to address such concerns by choosing scale subjects such as the Barling Bomber* and by using oak instead of balsa.  ;-)

*Three wings, six engines, lots of struts and wires and too many wheels. OTOH, it might be able to stay up the way some helicopters do. They're so ugly that the Earth rejects them.

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I've noticed that long RC soaring flights make my neck hurt more than they used to. Not usually a problem in free flight, though I once watched a 6 foot, rubber powered Beardmore Inflexible fly around, high overhead, for thirty or forty minutes.