| CCRCS Member Since:
1999 |
Age:
50's something! |
Occupation: Fire
Alarm Service Technician
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| Year Started in Hobby:
1974 |
Club Office Held:
President, Secretary |
Hometown:
Battle Ground, WA |
Favorite Plane:
Any plane with the words
"Ugly Stick" in it! |
My Next Plane:
F-15 |
Email:
kamanhusky@aol.com |
| Favorite CCRCS Event:
Scale Meets |
Best R/C Project:
The one I am working on at the time! |
| Worst Experience:
I have been an instructor pilot for more years than I can
care to think about. One of my students was a man who had
been in a car accident and was confined to a wheel chair.
This man became such a huge part of my life as he and my son
became the best of friends. As hard as it was for him to
build planes, he did and with a lot of work and design my
son and I came up with a radio that he could use to fly his
planes with. It took us over 2 years of work, but we got him
soloed. It was a special moment in my life and it visably
touched my son. We were blessed with another month of flying
with him and then we got the word. Our good friend had
passed away. My son and I took it real hard and it was a
real low point in both our lives, as we struggled to
understand how it had taken us so long to get him soloed and
then he was gone. We live with the memory that those couple
of years were happy for all involved and that when he passed
on, we know who was holding the radio |
| Best Experience:
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| Why I fly at CCRCS:
That is an easy one. All the good friends that I have been
lucky enough to make over the years. There is nothing better
than going to the field and flying with my son and all my
friends. My son has been involved with RC for over 10 years
and is now in training to fly UAV's for the US. Army. How
proud am I? I have also been blessed to have met a couple of
young men in the past few months and to have been a part of
thier training program. One of them is close to being able
to out fly us all at the ripe old age of 13. This young man
wants to go to college and study to be a pilot and if what
he has learned while learning to fly RC helps him in later
years, how much better can I feel. |
| My Project/Build List:
Being as kit's are a dying market, I will be doing a lot of
scratch building. I really want to build a huge DC-3. |
| My Commentary:
As I mentioned, I have been blessed with the ammount of
years that I have been a part of RC and all the friends that
I have made. RC is my passion and there is nothing more
satisfing than to build a plane and then fly it. Every plane
is a challenge, every plane is an adventure, and every plane
has a life span. The thrill in all this is figuring out the
awnser to each of those statements. |
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