About Me

...in any case, I've always wanted to build and fly a Dakota, ever since the kid down the street had one. Of course, he was an older kid, maybe thirteen at the time, and I was nine and no motors yet.

That changed later that year when a neighbor adult gave me an old OK Cub .049. Still have it, BTW. That motor logged lots of hours on a scratch-build U/C job made from wood from an orange crate...really. It was so heavy and slow that I many times went flying alone at the parking lot at the local grocery. I would start it, then just let it go and trot to the center and grab the handle. I seem to remember that it still took a little whipping to get it airborne, but it flew. Round and round is all, but it flew. I graduated to a log model or two from that. Burned up quite a few cans of Blue Blazer in the little OK. First freeflights weren't a lot better (some would say they still aren't.......) I always envied the kids who's dad's took an interest, or better, were modelers themselves, but I did OK.

See a different OK Cub here: http://theaerosmith.com/photo6.html This one runs really, really well...when it's not broken, that is. Can't expect too awfully much from a motor cast from slag.......