Why do you love this hobby?

[littlecrankshaft]

siko_flyer;19149 wrote: For all the hot chicks that hang out at the field!!!

Not only at the flying field...everywhere I go I make a point to mention I fly model airpanes... the hot chicks just flock on my shoulder wanting to know more... That's how I got my knock-out wife and all my girlfriends... Thank goodness my girlfriends like my wife too...although that's probably just because of the model airpanes we have. ;-)

 

[reyn3545]

I 'm waiting for Ara Tidwell to chime in.....

 

[stangflyer]

littlecrankshaft;19707 wrote: Not only at the flying field...everywhere I go I make a point to mention I fly model airpanes... the hot chicks just flock on my shoulder wanting to know more... That's how I got my knock-out wife and all my girlfriends... Thank goodness my girlfriends like my wife too...although that's probably just because of the model airpanes we have. ;-)

Uh-huh....that's not what your girlfriends told me. Bwahaahaahaa



Seriously though...you gentlemen that do have wives/girlfriends that stand by you... It is actually quite refreshing. Gives a guy some hope. LOL

 

[siko_flyer]

And now for the rest of the story.... I was drinking alot,and I mean aaaaalllooottt.I decided I needed a hobby so I wasn't sitting around thinking about drinking. I went to the lhs with the intent of getting a rc car.Once I got there I decided to get an airplane instead because I had had a car before and got bored with it pretty quick.I told myself I could either fly,or drink,but not both.I fell in love with flying and I haven't drank in the 10 or 11 years I have been flying.I figure this hobby has extended my life as well as kept me out of jail from DUI's.

 

[stangflyer]

siko_flyer;19739 wrote: And now for the rest of the story.... I was drinking alot,and I mean aaaaalllooottt.I decided I needed a hobby so I wasn't sitting around thinking about drinking. I went to the lhs with the intent of getting a rc car.Once I got there I decided to get an airplane instead because I had had a car before and got bored with it pretty quick.I told myself I could either fly,or drink,but not both.I fell in love with flying and I haven't drank in the 10 or 11 years I have been flying.I figure this hobby has extended my life as well as kept me out of jail from DUI's.

Good for you. It not only takes courage to over come an addiction. I've not personally suffered with this type of decease, however have been associated with many that have. Between natural father, recent ex girlfriend and others.... I've discovered it is "NOT" an easy thing to overcome. I take my hat off to you.

Now if only I can get some help with my decease and addiction.... I don't think "huckin'" and flying 3D is going to put me or anyone else six feet under though. LOL.....

 

[mndless]

I have always been fascinated by aircraft and flight... Wasn't any family interest in the hobby growing up so when I went off to grad school I decided to start building a plane, this was back in 1985. Of all things, I ordered a top flight .40cc F4U corsair as my first kit to build and my first plane to fly. No back ground, no mentor, just me thinking I'm a reasonably smart guy, I can figure it out. No surprise, that plane never had a chance at flight and if it had, would never have found an instructor willing to train me on a war bird... too funny to think back on that delusional expectation.



Found a local retired gentleman up in Clemson who helped me build several planes and taught me how to scratch build and how to fly. Spent many, many evenings over at his house building and listening to stories. When I left Clemson I lost touch with him... one of my many regrets. Got married, had kids started a business and grew away from the hobby for years. Started flying again in the early 90's and purchased my first Giant Scale plane, a 35% Edge. This was before the days of Giant Scale ARF's... I was busy working crazy hours and paid a really good friend to build it for me... I am in the process of re-coving and updating that very plane today, some 10 years later. For whatever silly reason, that plane purchased and built by a friend is special to me... she's my baby...



Anyway, the construction and engineering economy went to crap just about the same time our club lost our flying field so I again got out of the hobby in the late 90's... spend quite a few years spending my free time cave diving... which is huge fun, but another story. Just in the past few months have I now returned to flying and hope to stick with it for many years to come. I love the planes, I love the attention to detail in both building and flying, and the friends made really are a special part... right back to my first mentor from when I first started.

 

[RonaldHopping]

well for me it all started that sultry sizzeling hot June afternoon 1979,we were playing ball and i heard this loud buzz.and looking above i see this amazing site a red and white aircraft buzzing around the football parking lot.well i grew up around full scale aviation and had always enjoyed control line,but this was amazing no strings it was looping and rolling and i watched as he set up for a landing and greased it in on a perfect 3 point landing,i was hooked but it wasnt until after high school 1983. when i was married that i was able to get started in this amazing hobby so i drag my wife back to that parking lot where they flew every weekend.we parked and i was like a little kid so amazed,and just after i told her i wanted to get into this hobby,this Goldberg skylark comes rolling down the runway set up for a landing and then boom he balled it up into a pile of tooth picks,at that point my wife turns to me and says are you sure this is the hobby you want to be involved in?and i looked at her like a 5 year old on christmas morning and said yes please and from there i never looked back learned on a phil kraft ugly stick with a fox 78 and a kraft 7 channel radio,and today i enjoy flying giant scale,

 

[njswede]

Four years ago, almost to the day, I walked into a hobby store and bought a HobbyZone SuperCub on a whim. I flew it for about four seconds and then promptly put it in a tree. But for some reason I got bitten. About a million crashes later, I was actually able to sustain controlled flight and I joined a club. In 2011 I bought my first 3D plane (3DHS 41" Edge), 2012 I got my first gasser (3DHS 72" Extra), 2013 I got my first 50cc (Aerobeez 88" Slick) and just recently I got my first 120cc plane (3DHS 104" Slick).

What I like about the hobby? What's not to like? The technology, the challenge, the suspense. But most of all, the people. I have flying friends ranging from pre-teens to mid nineties. Doctors, janitors, lawyers, mechanics, truck drivers and engineers. Every single walk of life it there. People I'd normally never meet. It widens my horizons. It takes the edge off the stress from work.

I love this ****!

 

[ericb]

Mine has been a long road. Back in High School, my friend and I thought it would be awesome to get a plane and fly it around the football field. That idea brewed in my head for a couple of years and I finally decided to make the 1.5 hour drive to the nearest hobby shop that had planes. I walked in to buy a plane and somehow fell in love with a tunnel hull boat. I bought the boat and K&B glow engine and radio set. That was my first experience with glow. Not knowing how to tune an engine at all, I thought I better not do it on the lake so I filled the bathtub with water and started it and tuned a little in there. Fast forward a couple years and the airplane bug bit me again so I used my trusty Tower Hobbies catalog to place an order for an Aircore trainer with tower 40 glow engine and all of the required field equipment. I built that thing and was amazed at how large it was. I had no help at the time so I thought it would be a good idea to go out to a field where there was some flat ground and just fly the thing. The first flight lasted about 45 seconds. It was just porpoising out of control and I crashed. After that I put it in storage. A couple years later I moved down to Sioux Falls. After a year or so in town I went to the LHS and got the bug again. I broke out the old aircore trainer and fired it up. It didn't have enough power anymore for takeoff, so I ordered a new engine for it. After installing the new engine I went to the field and tried again. After a 3 minute flight I finally thought I should get some help. I ended up going to the LHS and flying on the sim. I didn't leave that night until I could nail the landings. After that it was back to the field and teaching myself the entire time. That was about 8 years and many planes ago. The best thing about this hobby is the people. I have made countless friends over the years and I am very grateful for that.

 

[jkhorvath]

For me it's an addiction to the beauty of the aircraft on the ground and in flight. What has grown on me is the number of new people I've met. Now there is no way I can get away; and I don't want to get away.