On 28/08/2019 09:40, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
35 years ago one of my balsa wood single channel models slightly hit a kid
who was watching. I was trying to land (semi controlled crash) at my feet. I
was insured.
I did visit the local club's flying field some years ago, I was thinking of
going back into the hobby. I was met with the same snobbery that existed
over 40 years ago, that is the way that the hobby went. I used to visit the
local flying field when I was about 17, nobody would talk to me except one
man, Gordon Whitehead who has written books on flying scale model planes. He
joined the RAF as a physics teacher and got the rank of Captain - dunno how.
He showed me how to balsa bash and how to fly models. I've tried to find him
and can't. He was older than me .............. :-(
http://www.warbirdreplicas.co.uk/Sca...itehead/13.htm


A minute or so's displacement yielded:

"Gordon Whitehead 1 29/05/2019 21:05:59

Well I have more than 62 years of my life invested in this hobby, and
it'll take far more than a £16.50 (and more if it inflates) charge to
stop me designing, building and flying sport-scale models ..."

https://www.modelflying.co.uk/forums...?th=142496&p=5

So your start of term report is "must try harder"


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