From the beginning. How did you start flying RC?

[toysforbigboys]

I started of with Model Rockets when I was about 8 years old. I got pretty good at scratch building Rockets and designing my own. had a few that the recovery of the rocket was to glide down remote controlled.

Then when I was about 12, my dad took me to the field where a few of his friends were fly RC planes, that right there ended the Rockets...went out that night and got my first Kit. Midwest Aero master 40....have been hooked ever since.

Best thing is the wife dont mind the hobby to much. She says I could be wasting money on worse things..lol.

 

[Sailor808]

I built a Goldberg Eagle 2 with an Enya .40 when I was about eleven. Never flew it. Didn't have the balls to do what I was certain to end in misery.
Flash forward about 15 years and I bought a rtf multiplex 3ch pusher. I can't think of the name of it. I had some success with that after planting it numerous times because the elevator control was reversed. But eventually it became mostly glue and wouldn't fly anymore.
Another five years go by and I was helping an electrician buddy build some pull out drawers for his work van, he brought a Combatwings flying wing to my shop and was flying it around. My inner ten year old came screaming to the surface and I've been hooked for the last few years. I still love the wings, but I've moved past glow and my go to plane is a 30cc Extra from Aeroworks.

 

[aarestor]

About 50 ears ago I got a rubber powered kit for my birthday and it has been down hill ever since.

 

[Decal Dennis]

In 2007 I bought a Multiplex Easystar (impulse buy at the hobby shop), went over to the local park and taught myself how to fly.....about 3 months later I had my first 50cc gasser. Gone Bigger better and faster since then!!

 

[Sailor808]

Easy star. That's the one

 

[mndless]

OMG... I started in 1985 with a top flight .40cc F4U Corsair... never had a chance at flight... no background, no building experience and no mentor... built crashed and repaired three planes before I ever learned to fly... list included an ugly stick, a sig cougar and another that I cannot recall... simulators make the learning process much different today..... much carnage took place back in the 'the day'...

 

[Bill Vargas]

I started out with a cox red baron wayyyy back in the day and now enjoy the 50'centers,,, a gold edition is sitting there on the 3W275

 

[Dooinit]

Started in 2009 with a hangar9 alpha60. One of my best friends invited me to the flying field with him and then he gave me the alpha. He sort of taught me to fly I guess. It was more of a "just don't crash". Went through probably 8 nitro planes that year and the next, selling not crashing! I got I to gas and went crazy. I have had a 30cc, four 50cc, four 100cc and two 170cc. This habit is mildly addicting

 

[stangflyer]

I started out with a cox red baron wayyyy back in the day and now enjoy the 50'centers,,, a gold edition is sitting there on the 3W275

So you have your replacement fo' dat Edge do you? Hmm....guess I will just have to come take that BH Edge off your hands then huh?

 

[doublea]

Guys these stories are awesome. Thinking about that far back it really amazes me how far rc has come. I hope with gas starting to really come back down. I hope even though all the hub bub. I hope 2015 gives a real jump to pilots to come out and fly.